Politics or Principle? : Filibustering in the United States Senate - 97 edition
Politics or Principle? : Filibustering in the United States Senate - 97 edition
ISBN13: 9780815709510
ISBN10: 081570951X
by Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith
Edition: 97Copyright: 1997
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Published: 1997
International: No
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Summary
Commentary
Many Americans of a certain age may remember the filibuster as Jimmy Stewart's final courageous act in the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but the real significance of the filibuster is rarely appreciated and frequently misunderstood in American politics. In this excellent study, the authors (political science, Univ. of Minnesota) provide readers with everything they might ever need to know about the history, use, and effectiveness of the filibuster. Not since Franklin L. Burdette's Filibuster in the Senate was published in 1940 has this subject been treated to such a comprehensive and intelligent analysis. For example, the authors, employing statistical means, test the proposition that contemporary resort to the filibuster happens for more partisan motives and for more trivial issues than at any other time in the Senate's history, and discover that this is not the case. Overall, this is a fine book that any student of Congress should read. Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ. Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Author Bio
Binder, Sarah A. :
Sarah A. Binder, a research associate in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution, is the author of Minority Rights, Majority Rule (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1997).
Smith, Steven S. : University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Steven S. Smith is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books on congressional politics, including The American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Politics and Principle of the Filibuster
Chapter 2: The Original versus the Traditional Senate
Chapter 3: Senate Tradition Revisited
Chapter 4: Politics, Principle, and the Trivilization of the Filibuster
Chapter 5: The Filibuster and the Little-Harm Thesis
Chapter 6: Senate Support for Limits on Debate
Chapter 7: The Past and Future of the Senate
Photographs
Tables
Figures
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Commentary
Many Americans of a certain age may remember the filibuster as Jimmy Stewart's final courageous act in the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but the real significance of the filibuster is rarely appreciated and frequently misunderstood in American politics. In this excellent study, the authors (political science, Univ. of Minnesota) provide readers with everything they might ever need to know about the history, use, and effectiveness of the filibuster. Not since Franklin L. Burdette's Filibuster in the Senate was published in 1940 has this subject been treated to such a comprehensive and intelligent analysis. For example, the authors, employing statistical means, test the proposition that contemporary resort to the filibuster happens for more partisan motives and for more trivial issues than at any other time in the Senate's history, and discover that this is not the case. Overall, this is a fine book that any student of Congress should read. Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ. Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Binder, Sarah A. :
Sarah A. Binder, a research associate in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution, is the author of Minority Rights, Majority Rule (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1997).
Smith, Steven S. : University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Steven S. Smith is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books on congressional politics, including The American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989).
Chapter 1: The Politics and Principle of the Filibuster
Chapter 2: The Original versus the Traditional Senate
Chapter 3: Senate Tradition Revisited
Chapter 4: Politics, Principle, and the Trivilization of the Filibuster
Chapter 5: The Filibuster and the Little-Harm Thesis
Chapter 6: Senate Support for Limits on Debate
Chapter 7: The Past and Future of the Senate
Photographs
Tables
Figures
Published: 1997
International: No
Summary
Commentary
Many Americans of a certain age may remember the filibuster as Jimmy Stewart's final courageous act in the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but the real significance of the filibuster is rarely appreciated and frequently misunderstood in American politics. In this excellent study, the authors (political science, Univ. of Minnesota) provide readers with everything they might ever need to know about the history, use, and effectiveness of the filibuster. Not since Franklin L. Burdette's Filibuster in the Senate was published in 1940 has this subject been treated to such a comprehensive and intelligent analysis. For example, the authors, employing statistical means, test the proposition that contemporary resort to the filibuster happens for more partisan motives and for more trivial issues than at any other time in the Senate's history, and discover that this is not the case. Overall, this is a fine book that any student of Congress should read. Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ. Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Author Bio
Binder, Sarah A. :
Sarah A. Binder, a research associate in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution, is the author of Minority Rights, Majority Rule (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1997).
Smith, Steven S. : University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Steven S. Smith is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books on congressional politics, including The American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989).
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Politics and Principle of the Filibuster
Chapter 2: The Original versus the Traditional Senate
Chapter 3: Senate Tradition Revisited
Chapter 4: Politics, Principle, and the Trivilization of the Filibuster
Chapter 5: The Filibuster and the Little-Harm Thesis
Chapter 6: Senate Support for Limits on Debate
Chapter 7: The Past and Future of the Senate
Photographs
Tables
Figures
