Acknowledgments
What’s This Book About?
Part I. Basic Ideas
1 Rule Breaking
2 Imagination
Part II. Institutions, Rule Breaking, and Imagination
3 Thick Institutions and Rule Breaking: Sulla and Caesar, Reed and Johnson
4 Breaking Rules in Breaking the Filibuster
5 Political Imagination after Filibuster Reform: The Postcloture Filibuster and Its Demise
6 A Third Take on the Filibuster: Breaking Rules by Reinterpreting Rules
7 Obstruction and Urgency in the Nineteenth-Century House of Commons
8 Violating Legislative Rules: Resolving Bicameral Differences
9 Stealing Elections
Part III. Bits and Bobs
10 King David and Old Testament Rule Breaking
11 Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, and Contract
12 Gimmickry
13 Intelligence Agencies: Breaking the Rules by Making Up Their Own Rules
14 Vigilantism
Conclusions
References
Index