Building the Bloc - Intraparty Organization in the Us Congress

When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers? When they organize.

Sommario

1. Intraparty organization in the US Congress; 2. Procedural revolt and the House insurgency, 1908-10; 3. The Senate insurgency's quest for economic reform, 1909-10; 4. Securing southern solidarity, 1937-56; 5. The decline of southern influence, 1957-64; 6. Making the moderates matter, 1994-2010; 7. Coordinating liberal hardliners, 1957-94; 8. Organizing conservative revolutionaries, 1970-2015; 9. Rethinking the mischiefs of faction.

Info autore

Ruth Bloch Rubin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Riassunto

Building the Bloc offers a new theory of how organized groups of dissident lawmakers - such as the Blue Dog Coalition and House Freedom Caucus - drive congressional development and structure lawmaking. Spanning more than a century of history, it sheds new light on a number of decisive congressional conflicts and compromises.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ruth Bloch Rubin, Ruth (University of Chicago) Bloch Rubin
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781316649923
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64992-3
• Pagine: 332
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general