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On parliamentary war : partisan conflict and procedural change in the US Senate /

"Dysfunction in the contemporary Senate is driven by the deteriorating relationship between the majority and minority parties in the institution. In this environment, regular order is virtually non-existent and unorthodox parliamentary procedures are frequently needed to pass important legislat...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wallner, James I. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Collection:Legislative politics & policy making.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • On parliamentary war
  • Parliamentary war in theory
  • The procedural architecture of Senate decision-making
  • Analyzing minority behavior in parliamentary war
  • The case of a determined minority
  • The case of an undetermined minority
  • In search of a more effective deterrent
  • Preventing nuclear war.