Filibuster - Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.s. Senate

Zusatztext "Winner of the 2007 Richard Fenno Award! Legislative Studies Organized Section of the American Political Science Association" Informationen zum Autor Gregory J. Wawro & Eric Schickler Klappentext Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the "filibuster," has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, when it lacked seemingly essential formal rules for governing debate. What prevented the Senate from self-destructing during this time? The authors argue that in a system where filibusters played out as wars of attrition, the threat of rule changes prevented the institution from devolving into parliamentary chaos. They show that institutional patterns of behavior induced by inherited rules did not render Senate rules immune from fundamental changes. The authors' theoretical arguments are supported through a combination of extensive quantitative and case-study analysis, which spans a broad swath of history. They consider how changes in the larger institutional and political context--such as the expansion of the country and the move to direct election of senators--led to changes in the Senate regarding debate rules. They further investigate the impact these changes had on the functioning of the Senate. The book concludes with a discussion relating battles over obstruction in the Senate's past to recent conflicts over judicial nominations. Winner of the 2007 Richard Fenno Award, Legislative Studies Organized Section of the American Political Science Association Zusammenfassung Explains how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the 19th and early 20th century, when it lacked essential formal rules for governing debate. This book argues that in a system where filibusters played out as wars of attrition, the threat of rule changes prevented the institution from devolving into parliamentary chaos....

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• Authors: Eric Schickler, Gregory J. Schickler, Schickler Eric, Gregory Wawro, Gregory J. Wawro, Gregory J. Schickler Wawro, Gregory J./ Schickler Wawro, Gregory Schickler Wawro, Wawro Gregory
• Assisted by: Eric Katznelson (Editor), Martin Shefter (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2007
• EAN: 9780691134062
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13406-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Princeton Studies in American; Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Central government