Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Name: Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate
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ISBN: 9780226449654

ISBN-10: 0226449653

ISBN-13: 9780226449654

Edition: 2010

Authors: Gregory Koger

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In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislative process as a game played by the rules in which votes are the critical commoditythe side that has the most votes wins. In this comprehensive volume,Gregory Koger shows, on the contrary, that filibustering is a game with slippery rules in which legislators who think fast and try hard can triumph over superior numbers. Filibusteringexplains how and why obstruction has been institutionalized in the U.S. Senate over the last fifty years, and how…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Foundations



Introduction



A Theory of Obstruction



The Historic Congress, 1789-1901



The Escalation of Filibustering, 1789–1901



Filibusters in the Historic Congress



Explaining Obstruction in the Historic Congress



The Modern Senate, 1901-Present



The Growth of Filibustering in the Senate



Explaining the Rise of Filibustering in the Senate



From Attrition to Cloture: Institutionalizing the Filibuster


Afterword: The Future of the Senate


Notes


References


Index