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9780226534893: Why Not Parties?: Party Effects in the United States Senate
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ISBN 10: 0226534898 ISBN 13: 9780226534893
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2008

Sinopsis

Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have. In response to the recent increase in senatorial partisanship, Why Not Parties? corrects this imbalance with a series of original essays that focus exclusively on the effects of parties in the workings of the upper chamber.

Illuminating the growing significance of these effects, the contributors explore three major areas, including the electoral foundations of parties, partisan procedural advantage, and partisan implications for policy. In the process, they investigate such issues as whether party discipline can overcome Senate mechanisms that invest the most power in individuals and small groups; how parties influence the making of legislation and the distribution of pork; and whether voters punish senators for not toeing party lines. The result is a timely corrective to the notion that parties don’t matter in the Senate—which the contributors reveal is far more similar to the lower chamber than conventional wisdom suggests.

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Nathan W. Monroe is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Merced. Jason M. Roberts is assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. David W. Rohde is the Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226534898
ISBN 13 
9780226534893
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
294
Editor
Monroe Nathan W., Roberts Jason M., Rohde David W.
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