| Contents |
Introduction: Assessing the impact of parties in the U.S. Senate / Nathan W. Monroe, Jason M. Roberts, David W. Rohde -- Electoral accountability, party loyalty, and roll--call voting in the U.S. Senate / Jamie L. Carson -- Party and constituency in the U.S. senate, 1933-2004 / John Aldrich ... [et al.] -- Scoring the senate: scorecards, parties, and roll-call votes / Jason M. Roberts, Lauren Cohen Bell -- The senate whip system: an exploration / Erin M. Bradbury, Ryan A. Davidson, C. Lawrence Evans -- Party loyalty and discipline in the individualistic senate / Kathryn Pearson -- Make way for the party: the rise and fall of the senate national security community, 1947-2006 / Linda L. Fowler, R. Brian Law -- Agenda influence and tabling motions in the U.S. Senate / Chris Den Hartog, Nathan W. Monroe -- Filibustering and majority rule in the senate: the contest over judicial nominations, 2003-2005 / Gregory Koger -- Minority-party power in the senate and house of representatives / Sean Gailmard, Jeffery A. Jenkins -- Catch-22: closure, energy policy, and the limits of conditional party government / Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Marc J. Hetherington -- Distributive and partisan politics in the U.S. Senate: an exploration of earmarks / Michael H. Crespin, Charles J. Finocchiaro. |
