{"product_id":"party-process-and-political-change-in-congress-volume-1-9780804745710","title":"Party Process and Political Change in Congress","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePolicy, Process, and Political Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003ci\u003eAPSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All of these essays constitute high-powered marriages between sophisticated quantitative methods and powerful analytical theory.\"—Kenneth A. Shepsle, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405552853335,"sku":"9780804745710","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804745710.jpg?v=1730492808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/party-process-and-political-change-in-congress-volume-1-9780804745710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}