Author : Sarah A. Binder
Release : 1997-06-13
Genre : Law
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Minority Rights, Majority Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights, Majority Rule write by Sarah A. Binder. This book was released on 1997-06-13. Minority Rights, Majority Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the US Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate, minorities quite often call the shots, empowered by the filibuster to frustrate the majority. Why did the two chambers develop such distinctive legislative styles? Conventional wisdom suggests that differences in the size and workload of the House and Senate led the two chambers to develop very different rules of procedure. Sarah Binder offers an alternative, partisan theory to explain the creation and suppression of minority rights, showing that contests between partisan coalitions have throughout congressional history altered the distribution of procedural rights. Most importantly, new majorities inherit procedural choices made in the past. This institutional dynamic has fuelled the power of partisan majorities in the House but stopped them in their tracks in the Senate.