Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules

ISBN: 9781107626096 出版年：2014 页码：214 Gisela Sin Cambridge University Press

1. A constitutional perspective on House organization 2. Constitutional actors and intraparty groups 3. A constitutional theory of House organization 4. Timing of House organizational changes 5. The Senate and White House shadows: centralization and decentralization of the rule of the US House, 1879-2013 6. New rules for an old Speaker: revisiting the 1910 revolt against Speaker Cannon 7. Conclusion Appendix A. Constitutional actors, partisanship, and House majority intraparty groups Appendix B. Theoretical proof Appendix C. List of changes in the rules and procedures of the House Appendix D. The universe of rules-and-procedures coding of the William H. Taft and Calvin Coolidge presidencies Appendix E. Directionality of rules and procedures Appendix F. Senate's ideal point.