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Parties in Congress and the Search for Consequences Parties in Congress and the Search for Consequences
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The Renewed Attention to Parties in the House The Renewed Attention to Parties in the House
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A Dissenting View A Dissenting View
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The “Republican Revolution” Provides Additional Evidence The “Republican Revolution” Provides Additional Evidence
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If the Senate, Why and How? If the Senate, Why and How?
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Some Preliminary Considerations Some Preliminary Considerations
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Motivations for Party Effects Motivations for Party Effects
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The Mechanisms of Party Effects The Mechanisms of Party Effects
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The Chapters That Follow The Chapters That Follow
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Fianl Thoughts Fianl Thoughts
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Notes Notes
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1 Introduction: Assessing the Impact of Parties in the U.S. Senate
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Published:October 2008
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Abstract
According to the conventional view of legislative organization and decision making in the U.S. Senate, party effects in the Senate is something of an oxymoron. While research on the House has been both abundant and party-focused in recent years, the more sparse literature on the Senate still largely treats parties as secondary considerations in a chamber dominated by individual senators leveraging a decentralized procedural environment. This chapter reconsiders this view. Motivated by the disparate theoretical explanations of the House and Senate, the naked-eye partisanship of the contemporary Senate, and the need for more research on the Senate in general, it asks: to what degree (if any) should we expect party effects in the U.S. Senate, and what is the evidence to support the expectations? The chapter first discusses briefly the recent political science literature on party effects in Congress generally and in the House in particular, to set the context for the consideration of the Senate. Next it considers some of the challenges that parties face in trying to work their will in the Senate, and the challenges that scholars face in studying the Senate more generally. It then offers some observations about the partisan climate in the Senate of the past several years, and concludes with a discussion of the limited work on parties in the Senate. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
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