Filibuster : obstruction and lawmaking in the U.S. Senate /
Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the 'filibuster, ' has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Wawro and Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the 19th and early 20th century, when it lacked seem...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Obstruction in theoretical context
- The mutability of senate rules
- Where's the pivot?
- Dilatory motions and the success of obstruction
- Obstruction and the tariff
- Slavery and obstruction in the antebellum senate
- Obstruction and institutional change
- Cloture reform reconsidered
- The impact of cloture on the appropriations process.
