Turning the legislative thumbscrew minority rights and procedural change in legislative politics PDF
Preview Turning the legislative thumbscrew minority rights and procedural change in legislative politics
Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics DOUGLAS DION Ann Arbor 'THE liNIvERSITr OF MIcmGAN PREss First paperback edition 2001 Copyright © by The University of Michigan 1997 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America e Printed on acid-free paper 2004 2003 2002 200 1 5 4 3 2 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dion, Douglas, 1961- Turning the legislative thumbscrew: minority rights and procedural change in legislative politics I Douglas Dion. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-472-10820-4 (cloth) I. United States. Congress-Rules and practice. 2. Parliamentary practice-United States. 3. Legislative bodies-United States. I. Title. KF4937.D56 1997 342.73 '05-dc2 I 97-22819 CIP ISBN 0-472-08826-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-10820-6 (cloth) ISBN13 978-0-472-08826-3 (paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02269-4 (electronic) For Mary yet behold, always as you turn your legislative thumbscrew, and will press and even crush till Refractories give way ... - Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Part 1. Minority Rights in Legislatures Chapter 1. Introduction 3 Chapter 2. A Partisan Theory of Obstruction and Procedural Change 21 Part 2. Evidence from the U.S. House, 1837-95 Chapter 3. Testing Assumptions and Links 41 Chapter 4. Rules Changes in the Antebellum House 79 Chapter 5. Rules Changes in the Gilded Age 105 Chapter 6. The Missing Rules Changes 139 Part 3. Evidence from Other Institutions Chapter 7. The U.S. Senate 165 Chapter 8. Going Abroad: The House of Commons and the Austrian Parliament 189 Part 4. Conclusion Chapter 9. Final Thoughts 245 Notes 259 Bibliography 277 Index 289
The list of books you might like
