Esteemed colleagues : civility and deliberation in the U.S. Senate /

What's happened to the longstanding traditions of civility and decorum within the world's greatest deliberative body' While the Senate hasn't yet become as rancorous as the House, over the past three decades it has grown noticeably less collegial. In Esteemed Colleagues, leading...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Loomis, Burdett A., 1945-2021
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2000.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt127z7v
Table of Contents:
  • Civility and deliberation : a linked pair? / Burdett A. Loomis
  • Part I, Civility in the U.S. Senate. Constitutional cohabitation / Ross K. Baker
  • Is the Senate more civil than the House? / Eric M. Uslaner
  • Part II, A deliberative institution. Individualism, partisanship, and cooperation in the Senate / Barbara Sinclair
  • The procedural context of Senate deliberation / C. Lawrence Evans and Walter J. Oleszek
  • Last among equals : the Senate's Presiding Officer / Gerald Gamm and Steven S. Smith
  • Part III, Senate deliberation in context. Constituency size and the strategic behavior of Senators / Bruce I. Oppenheimer
  • Senators and reporters revisited / Timothy E. Cook
  • The Senate and the Executive / Roger H. Davidson and Colton C. Campbell
  • Part IV, Civility and deliberation in practice. Civility, deliberation, and impeachment / Norman J. Ornstein
  • The Senate Budget Committee: bastion of comity? / James A. Thurber.