Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate by Wawro, Gregory

Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691134062)

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Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate by Wawro, Gregory

Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

$42.00
Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate by Wawro, Gregory

Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

$42.00
Format: Paperback
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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 parliamentary chaos. They show that institutional patterns of behavior induced by inherited rules did not render Senate rules immune from fundamental changes.

The authors' theoretical arguments are supported through a combination of extensive quantitative and case-study analysis, which spans a broad swath of history. They consider how changes in the larger institutional and political context--such as the expansion of the country and the move to direct election of senators--led to changes in the Senate regarding debate rules. They further investigate the impact these changes had on the functioning of the Senate. The book concludes with a discussion relating battles over obstruction in the Senate's past to recent conflicts over judicial nominations.

Author: Gregory Wawro, Eric Schickler
ISBN-10: 0691134065
ISBN-13: 9780691134062
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2007
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.36w x 0.79d
By Gregory Wawro
By Gregory Wawro
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Gregory J. Wawro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives. Eric Schickler is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress and coauthor of Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identity of Voters.

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