Institutional foundations of legislative speech

SO Proksch, JB Slapin - American Journal of Political Science, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Participation in legislative debates is among the most visible activities of members of
parliament (MPs), yet debates remain an understudied form of legislative behavior. This …

Legislative obstructionism

GJ Wawro, E Schickler - Annual Review of Political Science, 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
We review debates concerning the evolution and impact of parliamentary obstruction in the
US Senate, focusing on path dependency versus remote majoritarian perspectives. We …

[ספר][B] Frustrated majorities: How issue intensity enables smaller groups of voters to get what they want

SJ Hill - 2022‏ - books.google.com
Democratic elections do not always deliver what majorities want. Many conclude from
frustrated majorities a failure of democracy. This book argues the opposite may be true–that …

Signaling through obstruction

JW Patty - American Journal of Political Science, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Obstruction is a time‐honored tradition in legislative politics. In many cases, obstruction can
be foreseen to be ultimately unsuccessful, and in some of these cases, purely costly even to …

[ספר][B] Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the US Constitutional System

DR Mayhew - 2011‏ - degruyter.com
With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse
constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent …

Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre‐cloture Senate

GJ Wawro, E Schickler - American Journal of Political Science, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article employs a three‐pronged approach to test competing theories regarding the size
of coalitions required for passing legislation prior to the adoption of cloture in the Senate. We …

Congress and foreign policy: Congressional action on the Darfur genocide

J Uscinski, MS Rocca, GR Sanchez… - PS: political science & …, 2009‏ - cambridge.org
As of January 2008, more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million
people have been displaced in the regions of Darfur and Chad. This event has not gone …

Effort, intensity and position taking: reconsidering obstruction in the pre-cloture Senate

K Bawn, G Koger - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2008‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Effort is a crucial element of the legislative process—writing bills, forming coalitions, crafting
strategies, and debating. We develop a model in which legislative decisions are the product …

The filibuster as a war of attrition

D Dion, FJ Boehmke, W MacMillan… - The Journal of Law …, 2016‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Contrary to popular claims, we argue that the filibuster conveys meaningful information
about participants' willingness to fight for an issue. To this end, we present a model of the …

Preferences, parties, and legislative productivity

FY Chiou, LS Rothenberg - American Politics Research, 2006‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Chiou and Rothenberg (2003) utilized models of legislative productivity, synthesizing parties
and preferences by deriving and measuring different equilibrium gridlock intervals, finding …