The Senate syndrome : the evolution of procedural warfare in the modern U.S. Senate / Steven S. Smith.
2014
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Author
Title
The Senate syndrome : the evolution of procedural warfare in the modern U.S. Senate / Steven S. Smith.
Published
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
Copyright
2014
Call Number
JK1161 .S65 2014
ISBN
9780806144399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0806144394 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0806144394 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40023551641
System Control No.
(OCoLC)861209636
Summary
"Goes beyond explaining such seeming technicalities as the difference between regular filibusters and post-cloture filibusters, the importance of chair rulings, the changing role of the parliamentarian, and the debate over whether appeals of points of order should be subject to cloture margins, to show why understanding them matters. At stake is resolution of the Senate syndrome, and the critical underlying struggle between majority rule and minority rights in American policy making."-- from the book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-389) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
ix
Foreword / Carl B. Albert
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1.
The Senate Syndrome
15
pt. I
Emergence of the Senate Syndrome
2.
The Procedural Condition of the Senate in the 1950s
49
3.
The Rise of Individualism, 1961--1976
77
4.
The Intensification of Individualism and Obstructionism, 1977--1988
120
5.
Rising Partisanship, 1989--2004
163
6.
The Emergence of the Senate Syndrome, 2005--2012
209
7.
Reform by Ruling, 2013
251
pt. II
Implications of the Senate Syndrome
8.
Controversies about Senate Practice
269
9.
The Media, the Public, and Accountability
289
10.
The Implications of Reform-by-Ruling
312
11.
The Senate Syndrome and Reform
332
Notes
363
References
373
Index
391