Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress
Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain why majority parties have consistently been so powerful in the U.S. House of Representatives while minorities often prevail in the Senate. Dr. Binder charts the history of minority rights in both chambers and explains how partisan battles—fought under rules inherited from the past—have shaped the creation and suppression of minority rights. Dr. Binder's statistical analysis and historical work provide the first comprehensive account of the...
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Minority Rights, Majority Rules explains why majority parties dominate in the US House of Representatives, while minorities often dominate in the Senate.
List of tables and figuresPreface1The partisan basis of procedural choice12The evolving concepts of House and Senate minority rights193Procedural choice in the early Congress: The case of the "previous question"434Allocating minority rights in the House, 1789-1990685Institutionalizing party in the nineteenth-century House866Stacking the partisan deck in the twentieth-century House1327Inherited rules and procedural choice in the Senate1678Assessing the partisan theory202App. 1Summary of changes in minority rights211App. 2Measuring congressional workload218App. 3Measuring party behavior220Bibliography225Index233
