With an avalanche of scholarship on the House, it can be tough to balance out coverage in a typical Congress course with appropriate readings on the "slow institution."
Offering top-notch research geared to an undergraduate audience, Loomis’ new edited volume represents a broad picture of the contemporary Senate and how it came to be. While addressing issues of delay, obstruction, and polarization in a variety of ways, the scholars in this collection are not proposing a reform agenda, but instead, explore the historical and political contexts for how difficult it can be to change a non-majoritarian, highly individualistic institution. Students will come away from these chapters with a much greater appreciation of the Senate’s unique combination of tradition, precedent, and constitutional mandate.
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Table of Contents
1. The Senate at Mid-20th Century
Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
2. Senate Elections and Campaigns, 1960-2010
Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
3. Senators’ Careers and Enterprises: From Individual Operator to CEO
Burdett Loomis, University of Kansas
4. Individual Senators and the Party Linkage
Frances Lee, University of Maryland
5. Parties in the Senate
Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles
6. The Procedural Senate
Steven Smith, Washington University
7. The Filibuster Then and Now: Civil Rights in the 1960s and Health Care, 2009-10
Greg Koger, University of Miami
8. The Senate and the House: Bicameral Relations, 1960-2010
Ross Baker, Rutgers University
9. The Senate and the Executive: Nomination Politics
Sarah Binder, Brookings Institution & George Washington University
10. Domestic Policy: The Politics of Energy
Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
11. The Senate and Foreign Policy
James Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
12. The 21st Century Senate
David Rohde, Duke University
Testimonials
"This book’s great strengths are presenting a multifaceted view of developments in the Senate since the 1960s, the importance of the overall topic, and the strong roster of contributing authors. I think the book will be a valuable contribution to the field. This very strong group of authors are well-qualified and well-known in the discipline, especially among legislative scholars."
- David Nice, Washington State University"In the era of polarization, the Senate is perhaps more interesting than the House, given its rules that favor individual power.
The U.S. Senate is unique and offers something (thankfully) different than a standard reader. The list of contributors is outstanding—-these are top scholars in the subfield of congressional studies that have focused their analyses on the Senate."
- Jeffrey Peake, Clemson University
Bio(s)
Burdett A. Loomis, University of Kansas
Burdett A. Loomis is professor of political science at the University of Kansas. A former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and recipient of a Kemper Teaching Award, he has written extensively on legislatures, political careers, interest groups, and policymaking.
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