To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-
distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum …

We explore the foundations of the legislative party cartel, as theorized by Cox and
McCubbins (1993, 2005), to determine how majority‐party moderates who suffer net policy …

This article extends recent research on partisan agenda control in the US House of
Representatives to the issue of procedural control of the legislative agenda via special rules …

Majority leaders of the contemporary Congress preside over parties that are more cohesive
than at any point in the modern era, and power has been centralized in party leadership …

A fundamental tenet of partisan theories of legislative organization is that the majority party
is able to generate outcomes that deviate in their preferred direction from the chamber …

Scholars and other congressional observers argue that the erosion of so-called regular
order legislative processes exacerbates partisan conflict in Congress. In this article, we …

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new
volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest …

All major legislation in the House necessitates a special rule from the Rules Committee
before it can be brought to the chamber floor. These rules often strictly limit floor …

Recent research on the US House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of
partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as …

DURING the 1990s and early 2000s, as the power of party leaders in the US House of
Representatives approached levels not seen in a century, one of the most prominent …