Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew: Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative PoliticsUniversity of Michigan Press, 6 Μαΐ 2010 - 312 σελίδες The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative bodies over time. The fear that they will at some time be in the minority has inhibited actions by the majority groups to control the right of minority groups to block legislative action. And yet from time to time the majority in a legislative body has forced a change in the rules to control the rights of the minority. When does the majority seek to limit minority rights to obstruct legislation? Douglas Dion, in a unique study, develops a formal model to set out the conditions under which majorities will limit minority rights. He finds that when majorities are small, they will be more cohesive. This majority cohesion leads to minority obstruction, which in turn leads to majority efforts to force procedural change to control the ability of the minority to obstruct legislation. Dion then tests his findings in a rich consideration of historical cases from the nineteenth-century U.S. House of Representatives, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and an account of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament written by Mark Twain. Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew is a work that combines formal analysis with extensive historical evidence to address an important problem in democratic theory. Specialists in legislative politics and American political development, as well as those more broadly interested in the relationship between democratic theory and institutional structure, will find the work of great interest. Douglas Dion is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. |
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... democratic theory, formal theorists to be disappointed with the formal theory, historians to be disappointed with ... democratic theorists may exhibit pleasant surprise that deductive work is willing to take history and democratic ...
... democratic theory, formal theorists to be disappointed with the formal theory, historians to be disappointed with ... democratic theorists may exhibit pleasant surprise that deductive work is willing to take history and democratic ...
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... Democrats seem to have found a new respect for the rights of the opposition (few signs of which could have been more fascinating than the debate on the adoption of the rules for the 104th Congress, which witnessed—mirabile dictu—Democrats ...
... Democrats seem to have found a new respect for the rights of the opposition (few signs of which could have been more fascinating than the debate on the adoption of the rules for the 104th Congress, which witnessed—mirabile dictu—Democrats ...
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... democratic theory at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill introduced me to the issues of institutional change, democratic theory, and strategic interdependence. William Keech kindly took me under his wing when Ford departed ...
... democratic theory at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill introduced me to the issues of institutional change, democratic theory, and strategic interdependence. William Keech kindly took me under his wing when Ford departed ...
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... Democratic Leader”) in the North American Review of 1890 noted that “the filibustering tactics by which, in recent years, the minorities of legislative bodies have sought to prevent the majorities from exercising control over ...
... Democratic Leader”) in the North American Review of 1890 noted that “the filibustering tactics by which, in recent years, the minorities of legislative bodies have sought to prevent the majorities from exercising control over ...
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... Democrats and Republicans, but between politicians in and out of office. Looked at from one angle the cult of universalism has the appearance of a cross-party conspiracy among incumbents to keep their jobs” (105). Keith Krehbiel (1991) ...
... Democrats and Republicans, but between politicians in and out of office. Looked at from one angle the cult of universalism has the appearance of a cross-party conspiracy among incumbents to keep their jobs” (105). Keith Krehbiel (1991) ...
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Evidence from the US House 183795 | 39 |
Evidence from Other Institutions | 163 |
Conclusion | 243 |
Notes | 259 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 289 |
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