The Senate Syndrome Volume 12: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)

Steven S. Smith (author)

ISBN 10: 0806194030 / ISBN 13: 9780806194035

Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024

Riguardo questo articolo

The Senate Syndrome Volume 12: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Codice articolo 7719-9780806194035

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: The Senate Syndrome Volume 12: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
• Editore: University of Oklahoma Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0806194030
• ISBN 13: 9780806194035
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place where the policy-making process most frequently stalls, any effective resolution to our polarized politics demands a clear understanding of how the formerly august legislative body once worked and how it came to the present crisis. Steven S. Smith provides that understanding in The Senate Syndrome.

Like the Senate itself, Smith’s account is grounded in history. Countering a cacophony of inexpert opinion and a widespread misunderstanding of political and legislative history, the book fills in a world of missing information—about debates among senators concerning fundamental democratic processes and the workings of institutional rules, procedures, and norms. And Smith does so in a clear and engaging manner. He puts the present problems of the Senate—the “Senate syndrome,” as he calls them—into historical context by explaining how particular ideas and procedures were first framed and how they transformed with the times. Along the way he debunks a number of myths about the Senate, many perpetuated by senators themselves, and makes some pointed observations about the media’s coverage of Congress.

The Senate Syndrome goes beyond explaining such seeming technicalities as the difference between regular filibusters and post-cloture filibusters, the importance of chair rulings, the changing role of the parliamentarian, and the debate over whether appeals of points of order should be subject to cloture margins, to show why understanding them matters. At stake is resolution of the Senate syndrome, and the critical underlying struggle between majority rule and minority rights in American policy making.