Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress

ISBN-13: 9781316510421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 332 str.

Ruth Bloch Rubin

Opis

When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers? When they organize.

Recenzje

'This deeply researched book offers a fresh perspective on congressional organization and policymaking. Ruth Bloch Rubin traces the development of the progressive Republicans of the early twentieth century, the Southern Bloc of the mid twentieth century, the Democratic Study Group of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Blue Dogs, the Republican Study Committee, and the Freedom Caucus of recent decades. In the process, she illustrates how intraparty organization empowers pivotal actors who drive policymaking and Congress's institutional development.' Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland

Spis treści

1. Intraparty organization in the US Congress; 2. Procedural revolt and the House insurgency, 1908–10; 3. The Senate insurgency's quest for economic reform, 1909–10; 4. Securing southern solidarity, 1937–56; 5. The decline of southern influence, 1957–64; 6. Making the moderates matter, 1994–2010; 7. Coordinating liberal hardliners, 1957–94; 8. Organizing conservative revolutionaries, 1970–2015; 9. Rethinking the mischiefs of faction.