Why Not Parties?

Party Effects in the United States Senate

By: Nathan W. Monroe (Editor), Jason M. Roberts (Editor), David W. Rohde (Editor)

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Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have. In response to the recent increase in senatorial partisanship, "Why Not Parties?" corrects this imbalance with a series of original essays that focus exclusively on the effects of parties in the workings of the upper chamber. Illuminating the growing significance of these effects, the contributors explore three major areas, including the electoral foundations of parties, partisan procedural advantage, and partisan implications for policy. In the process, they investigate such issues as whether party discipline can overcome Senate mechanisms that invest the most power in individuals and small groups; how parties influence the making of legislation and the distribution of pork; and whether voters punish senators for not toeing party lines. The result is a timely corrective to the notion that parties don't matter in the Senate--which the contributors reveal is far more similar to the lower chamber than conventional wisdom suggests.

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"Timely, sophisticated, and well written, this volume contains an unusual number of new and important pieces. There is no comparable book on Senate politics." - Steven S. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis"

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Assessing the Impact of Parties in the U.S. Senate

Electoral Accountability, Party Loyalty, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate
Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933–2004
Scoring the Senate: Scorecards, Parties, and Roll-Call Votes

The Senate Whip System: An Exploration
Party Loyalty and Discipline in the Individualistic Senate
Make Way for the Party: The Rise and Fall of the Senate National Security Committees, 1947–2006
Agenda Influence and Tabling Motions in the U.S. Senate
Filibustering and Majority Rule in the Senate: The Contest over Judicial Nominations, 2003–2005

Minority-Party Power in the Senate and House of Representatives
Catch-22: Cloture, Energy Policy, and the Limits of Conditional Party Government
Distributive and Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks
References
Contributors
Index
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