Agenda setting in the U.S. Senate : costly consideration and majority party advantage /

"This book proposes a new theory of Senate agenda setting that reconciles a divide in literature between the conventional wisdom - in which party power is thought to be mostly, if not completely, undermined by Senate procedures and norms - and the apparent partisan bias in Senate decisions note...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Den Hartog, Chris
Otros Autores: Monroe, Nathan W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
United States. > Congress. > Senate.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Rules and practice.
États-Unis. > Congress. > Senate.
États-Unis. > Congress. > Senate > Règlements et procédure.
United States. > Congress. > Senate
Legislative calendars > United States.
Parlements > Ordres du jour > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislative calendars
United States
Rules
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Costly consideration. Costly consideration and the majority's advantage
  • The textbook senate and partisan policy influence
  • The costly-consideration agenda-setting theory
  • Senate procedure and consideration costs. Committees and senate agenda setting
  • Scheduling bills in the senate
  • The effects of filibusters
  • The disposition of majority and minority amendments
  • Killing amendments with tabling motions and points of order
  • The effects of amendments
  • Testing the costly-consideration theory. Testing our model
  • Implications of costly consideration
  • Appendix A: Relaxing the model's assumptions
  • Appendix B: Last actions and coding amendment disposition.

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