Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Assessing the Impact of Parties in the U.S. Senate
Nathan W. Monroe, Jason M. Roberts, and David W. Rohde
Part 1
2 Electoral Accountability, Party Loyalty, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate
Jamie L. Carson
3 Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933–2004
John Aldrich, Michael Brady, Scott de Marchi, Ian McDonald, Brendan Nyhan, David W. Rohde, and Michael Tofias
4 Scoring the Senate: Scorecards, Parties, and Roll-Call Votes
Jason M. Roberts and Lauren Cohen Bell
Part 2
5 The Senate Whip System: An Exploration
Erin M. Bradbury, Ryan A. Davidson, and C. Lawrence Evans
6 Party Loyalty and Discipline in the Individualistic Senate
Kathryn Pearson
7 Make Way for the Party: The Rise and Fall of the Senate National Security Committees, 1947–2006
Linda L. Fowler and R. Brian Law
8 Agenda Influence and Tabling Motions in the U.S. Senate
Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe
9 Filibustering and Majority Rule in the Senate: The Contest over Judicial Nominations, 2003–2005
Gregory Koger
Part 3
10 Minority-Party Power in the Senate and House of Representatives
Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins
11 Catch-22: Cloture, Energy Policy, and the Limits of Conditional Party Government
Bruce I. Oppenheimer and Marc J. Hetherington
12 Distributive and Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks
Michael H. Crespin and Charles J. Finocchiaro
References
Contributors
Index