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Filibuster : Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 pa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1306129516 9781306129510 9781400849475 1400849470 |