Why Not Parties?
Party Effects in the United States Senate
- Contents
- Review Quotes

1 Introduction: Assessing the Impact of Parties in the U.S. Senate
Nathan W. Monroe, Jason M. Roberts, and David W. Rohde
Part 1
2 Electoral Accountability, Party Loyalty, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate
Jamie L. Carson
3 Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933–2004
John Aldrich, Michael Brady, Scott de Marchi, Ian McDonald, Brendan Nyhan, David W. Rohde, and Michael Tofias
4 Scoring the Senate: Scorecards, Parties, and Roll-Call Votes
Jason M. Roberts and Lauren Cohen Bell
Part 2
5 The Senate Whip System: An Exploration
Erin M. Bradbury, Ryan A. Davidson, and C. Lawrence Evans
6 Party Loyalty and Discipline in the Individualistic Senate
Kathryn Pearson
7 Make Way for the Party: The Rise and Fall of the Senate National Security Committees, 1947–2006
Linda L. Fowler and R. Brian Law
8 Agenda Influence and Tabling Motions in the U.S. Senate
Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe
9 Filibustering and Majority Rule in the Senate: The Contest over Judicial Nominations, 2003–2005
Gregory Koger
Part 3
10 Minority-Party Power in the Senate and House of Representatives
Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins
11 Catch-22: Cloture, Energy Policy, and the Limits of Conditional Party Government
Bruce I. Oppenheimer and Marc J. Hetherington
12 Distributive and Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks
Michael H. Crespin and Charles J. Finocchiaro
References
Contributors
Index
“For nearly two decades legislative scholars have actively researched the extent and nature of party influence in today’s Congress and how it compares with the past. But the lion’s share of research has equated ‘Congress’ with the House of Representatives while largely ignoring the question of party influence in the Senate. This wide-ranging collection of essays goes a long way toward redressing the imbalance.”
“Timely, sophisticated, and well written, this volume contains an unusual number of new and important pieces. There is no comparable book on Senate politics.”
Political Science: American Government and Politics
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