Agenda Setting in the U.S. Senate: Costly Consideration and Majority Party Advantage

ISBN: 9781139066143 出版年：2011 页码：253 Chris Den Hartog Nathan W Monroe Cambridge University Press

Preface Part I: 1. Costly consideration and the majority's advantage 2. The textbook senate and partisan policy influence 3. The costly consideration agenda-setting theory Part II. Consideration Costs in the Senate: 4. Committees and senate agenda setting 5. Scheduling bills in the Senate 6. Effects of filibusters 7. Disposition of majority and minority amendments 8. Killing amendments with tabling motions and points of order 9. Effects of amendments Part III. Testing the Costly-Consideration Theory: 10. Testing our model 11. Implications of costly consideration Appendix A: relaxing the model's assumptions Appendix B: last actions and coding amendment disposition.