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Book SynopsisThis book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress.
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Policy, Process, and Political Change pulls together some of the leading scholars in partisanship and the historical development of congressional politics to offer an invaluable addition to the library of any student of Congress."—
APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter"All of these essays constitute high-powered marriages between sophisticated quantitative methods and powerful analytical theory."—Kenneth A. Shepsle, Harvard University
Table of Contents1. Party, Process, and Political Change: New Perspectives on the History of Congress DAVID W. BRADY AND MATHEW D. MCCUBBINS PART I: PARTIES, COMMITTEES, AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN CONGRESS 2. The Historical Variability in Conditional Party Government, 1877-1994 JOHN H. ALDRICH, MARK M. BERGER, AND DAVID W. ROHDE 3. Do Parties Matter? BARBARA SINCLAIR 4. Party and Preference in Congressional Decision Making: Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives, 1889-1999 JOSEPH COOPER AND GARRY YOUNG 5. Agenda Power in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1877-1986 GARY W. COX AND MATHEW D. MCCUBBINS 6. Agenda Power in the U.S. Senate, 1877-1986 ANDREA C. CAMPBELL, GARY W. COX, AND MATHEW D. MCCUBBINS 7. Party Loyalty and Committee Leadership in the House, 1921-40 BRIAN R. SALA PART II: THE EVOLUTION AND CHOICE OF CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS 8. Order from Chaos: The Transformation of the Committee System in the House, 1816-22 JEFFERY A. JENKINS AND CHARLES H. STEWART III 9. Leadership and Institutional Change in the Nineteenth- Century House RANDALL STRAHAN 10. Institutional Evolution and the Rise of the Tuesday-Thursday Club in the House of Representatives TIMOTHY P. NOKKEN AND BRIAN R. SALA 11. Policy Leadership and the Development of the Modern Senate GERALD GAMM AND STEVEN S. SMITH PART III: POLICY CHOICE AND CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS 12. Why Congress? What the Failure of the Confederation Congress and the Survival of the Federal Congress Tell Us About the New Institutionalism JOHN H. ALDRICH, CALVIN C. JILLSON, AND RICK K. WILSON 13. Agenda Manipulation, Strategic Voting, and Legislative Details in the Compromise of 1850 SEAN M. THERIAULT AND BARRY R. WEINGAST 14. Congress and the Territorial Expansion of the United States NOLAN MCCARTY, KEITH T. POOLE, AND HOWARD ROSENTHAL 15. Representation of the Antebellum South in the House of Representatives: Measuring the Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause BRIAN D. HUMES, ELAINE K. SWIFT, RICHARD M. VALELLY, KENNETH FINEGOLD, AND EVELYN C. FINK Afterword: History as a Laboratory DAVID W. BRADY AND MATHEW D. MCCUBBINS
