In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or
nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a
filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn’t always the case. Both
citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislative process as a
game played by the rules in which votes are the critical
commodity—the side that has the most votes wins. In this
comprehensive volume,Gregory Koger shows, on the contrary, that
filibustering is a game with slippery rules in which legislators who
think fast and try hard can triumph over superior numbers.
Filibustering explains how and why obstruction has been
institutionalized in the U.S. Senate over the last fifty years, and
how this transformation affects politics and policymaking. Koger also
traces the lively history of filibustering in the U.S. House during
the nineteenth century and measures the effects of
filibustering—bills killed, compromises struck, and new issues
raised by obstruction. Unparalleled in the depth of its theory and
its combination of historical and political analysis, Filibustering
will be the definitive study of its subject for years to come.
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ISBN
9780226449661
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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