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The Gingrich Senators

Sean M. Theriault

Author : Sean M. Theriault
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199307470

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The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory. Electioneering on the Senate floor, playing games with the legislative process, and questioning your fellow senators' motives have become commonplace. In this book, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents the Senate's demise over the last 30 years by showing how one group of senators has been at the forefront of this transformation. He calls this group the "Gingrich Senators" and defines them as Republican senators who previously served in the House after 1978, the year of Newt Gingrich's first election to the House. He shows how the Gingrich Senators are more conservative, more likely to engage in tactics that obstruct the legislative process, and more likely to oppose Democratic presidents than even their fellow other Republicans. Phil Gramm, Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Tom Coburn are just four examples of the group that has includes 40 total senators and 22 currently serving senators. Theriault first documents the ideological distinctiveness of the Gingrich Senators and examines possible explanations for it. He then shows how the Gingrich Senators behave as partisan warriors, which has radically transformed the way the Senate operates as an institution, by using cutthroat tactics, obstructionism, and legislative games. He concludes the book by examining the fate of the Gingrich Senators and the future of the U.S. Senate.

The Gingrich Senators

Sean M. Theriault

Author : Sean M. Theriault
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199339655

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The Gingrich Senators by Sean M. Theriault Pdf

The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory. Electioneering on the Senate floor, playing games with the legislative process, and questioning your fellow senators' motives have become commonplace. In this book, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents the Senate's demise over the last 30 years by showing how one group of senators has been at the forefront of this transformation. He calls this group the "Gingrich Senators" and defines them as Republican senators who previously served in the House after 1978, the year of Newt Gingrich's first election to the House. He shows how the Gingrich Senators are more conservative, more likely to engage in tactics that obstruct the legislative process, and more likely to oppose Democratic presidents than even their fellow other Republicans. Phil Gramm, Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Tom Coburn are just four examples of the group that has includes 40 total senators and 22 currently serving senators. Theriault first documents the ideological distinctiveness of the Gingrich Senators and examines possible explanations for it. He then shows how the Gingrich Senators behave as partisan warriors, which has radically transformed the way the Senate operates as an institution, by using cutthroat tactics, obstructionism, and legislative games. He concludes the book by examining the fate of the Gingrich Senators and the future of the U.S. Senate.

The Senate Syndrome

Steven S. Smith

Author : Steven S. Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806145938

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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.

The Stronghold

Thomas F. Schaller

Author : Thomas F. Schaller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300172034

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Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to pull together convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the last six. In their lone victory, the party incumbent wonduring wartimeby the slimmest of margins. In this fascinating and important book, Thomas Schaller examines national Republican politics since President Ronald Reagan left office in 1989. From Newt Gingrich's ascent to Speaker of the House through the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012, Schaller traces the Republican Party's institutional transformation and its broad consequences, not only for Republicans but also for America. Gingrich's Contract with America” set in motion a vicious cycle, Schaller contends: as the GOP became more conservative, it became more Congress-centered, and as its congressional wing grew more powerful, the party grew more conservative. This dangerous loop, unless broken, may signal a future of increasing radicalization, dependency on a shrinking pool of voters, and less viability as a true national party. In a thought-provoking conclusion, the author discusses repercussions of the GOP decline, among them political polarization and the paralysis of the federal government.

Politics to the Extreme

S. Frisch,S. Kelly

Author : S. Frisch,S. Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137312761

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Politics to the Extreme by S. Frisch,S. Kelly Pdf

To overcome the political deadlock that overshadows the pressing problems facing the United States, the academies top scholars address the causes and consequences of polarization in American politics, and suggest solutions for bridging the partisan divide.

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Michael Nelson,Barbara A. Perry,Russell L. Riley

Author : Michael Nelson,Barbara A. Perry,Russell L. Riley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501706202

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42 by Michael Nelson,Barbara A. Perry,Russell L. Riley Pdf

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. p>42 is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These interviews, recorded by teams of scholars working under a veil of strict confidentiality, explored officials’ memories of their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to joining the administration. Interviewees also offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written. The authors producing this volume had first access to more than fifty of these cleared interviews, including sessions with White House chiefs of staff Mack McLarty and Leon Panetta, Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, National Security Advisors Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, and a host of political advisors who guided Clinton into the White House and helped keep him there. This book thus provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best. p> Contributors Spencer D. Bakich, University of Richmond Brendan J. Doherty, United States Naval Academy Patrick T. Hickey, West Virginia University p>Elaine Kamarck, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Institution Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia Megan Moeller, University of Texas at Austin Michael Nelson, Rhodes College and the Miller Center, University of Virginia/p”Bruce F. Nesmith, Coe College/ppBarbara A. Perry, Miller Center, University of Virginia/ppPaul J. Quirk, University of British Columbia/ppRussell L. Riley, Miller Center, University of Virginia Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College Robert A. Strong, Washington and Lee University Sean M. Theriault, University of Texas at Austin

Party Polarization in Congress

Sean M. Theriault

Author : Sean M. Theriault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139473002

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Party Polarization in Congress by Sean M. Theriault Pdf

The political parties in Congress are as polarized as they have been in 100 years. This book examines more than 30 years of congressional history to understand how it is that the Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have become so divided. It finds that two steps were critical for this development. First, the respective parties' constituencies became more politically and ideologically aligned. Second, members ceded more power to their party leaders, who implemented procedures more frequently and with greater consequence. In fact, almost the entire rise in party polarization can be accounted for in the increasing frequency of and polarization on procedures used during the legislative process.

Asymmetric Politics

Matthew Grossmann,David A. Hopkins

Author : Matthew Grossmann,David A. Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190626600

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Asymmetric Politics by Matthew Grossmann,David A. Hopkins Pdf

The Republican Party is the vehicle of an ideological movement whereas the Democratic Party is a coalition of social groups with concrete policy concerns. Democrats prefer a more moderate party leadership that makes compromises, whereas Republicans favor a more conservative party leadership that sticks to principles. Each party finds popular support for its approach because the American public simultaneously favors liberal positions on specific policy issues and conservative views on the broader role of government

Lion of the Senate

Nick Littlefield,David Nexon

Author : Nick Littlefield,David Nexon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476796178

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Lion of the Senate by Nick Littlefield,David Nexon Pdf

An insider’s look at the two years when Senator Ted Kennedy held at bay both Newt Gingrich and his Republican majority: “For those who love politics and care about policy—and those looking for an account of how Washington used to work, Lion of the Senate is pure catnip” (USA TODAY). The November 1994 election swept a new breed of Republicans into control of the United States Congress. Led by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the Republicans were determined to enact a radically conservative agenda that would reshape American government. Some wanted to shut down the government. If Gingrich’s “Contract with America” been enacted, they would have shredded the federal safety net, decimated the federal programs, and struck down the regulatory framework that protects health, safety, and the environment. And, were it not for Ted Kennedy, who had defeated Mitt Romney for his Senate seat in 1994, they would have succeeded. In Lion of the Senate Nick Littlefield and David Nexon describe never-before-disclosed maneuvers of closed-door meetings in which Kennedy galvanized his party, including the two pivotal years, 1995 and 1996, when the Republicans held control of Congress and he fought to preserve the mission of the Democratic Party in the face of the right-wing onslaught. Here is the nitty-gritty of Kennedy’s role, and the details of a fascinating, bare-knuckled, and frequently hilarious fight in the United States Senate. “Compelling…as a story about how the Senate operates—well, how the Senate used to operate—and a story about perhaps the greatest Senate lawmaker of the second half of the twentieth century, Lion of the Senate succeeds” (The Washington Post) as a political lesson for all time. With an introduction by Doris Kearns Goodwin, this is “a fine rendering that deserves a wide readership” (Kirkus Reviews).

Issues in American Politics

John Dumbrell

Author : John Dumbrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134059157

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This wide ranging book provides readers with a reliable and lively guide to contemporary American political practices, processes and institutions. Essays in the proposed volume will cover phenomena such as the Tea Party upsurge in the Republican Party, Obama’s health care reforms, recent changes to campaign funding emanating from the key Citizens’ United Supreme Court decision, US foreign policy after the War on Terror, Obama's presidential strategy and issues relating to polarisation and partisanship in US politics. This work is essential reading for all students of American Politics and US Foreign Policy.

Burning Down the House

Julian E. Zelizer

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698402751

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Burning Down the House by Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book! A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms newly introduced to fight corruption, wielding the rules in ways that shocked the legislators who had created them. His crusade against Democrats culminated in the plot to destroy the political career of Speaker Wright. While some of Gingrich’s fellow Republicans were disturbed by the viciousness of his attacks, party leaders enjoyed his successes so much that they did little collectively to stand in his way. Democrats, for their part, were alarmed, but did not want to sink to his level and took no effective actions to stop him. It didn’t seem to matter that Gingrich’s moral conservatism was hypocritical or that his methods were brazen, his accusations of corruption permanently tarnished his opponents. This brand of warfare worked, not as a strategy for governance but as a path to power, and what Gingrich planted, his fellow Republicans reaped. He led them to their first majority in Congress in decades, and his legacy extends far beyond his tenure in office. From the Contract with America to the rise of the Tea Party and the Trump presidential campaign, his fingerprints can be seen throughout some of the most divisive episodes in contemporary American politics. Burning Down the House presents the alarming narrative of how Gingrich and his allies created a new normal in Washington.

Understanding American Politics, Third Edition

Stephen Brooks,Donald E. Abelson,Melissa Haussman

Author : Stephen Brooks,Donald E. Abelson,Melissa Haussman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487542566

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Understanding American Politics, Third Edition by Stephen Brooks,Donald E. Abelson,Melissa Haussman Pdf

Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative perspective is integrated throughout to better explain and highlight the ways in which American politics and government work in relation to other democracies. Streamlined to fit easily in today’s US politics courses, the third edition is fully updated and revised to engage with key issues in American politics while providing an accessible entry to the foundations of American government that detangles the polarized analysis characterizing so much information on the study of American politics. New chapters on special interest groups and the distinct American mediascape feature alongside up-to-date analysis on civil rights and inequalities incorporated in all chapters. Ultimately, this textbook enables non-American readers to understand the how and why of American politics by relating the subject to the experience and institutions of their own countries.

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

Newt Gingrich

Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596985766

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Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less by Newt Gingrich Pdf

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author, spells out in stunning simplicity a bold plan for America's energy independence.

Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich

Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478923077

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Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich Pdf

The presidency of Donald Trump marks a profound change in the trajectory of American government, politics, and culture. Like his administration, the movement that put him in office represents a phenomenon that is worth studying. Donald Trump is unlike any president we've ever had. He is the only person ever elected to be commander in chief who has not first held public office or served as a general in the military. His principles grow out of five decades of business and celebrity success-not politics-so he behaves differently than do traditional politicians. In UNDERSTANDING TRUMP, Newt Gingrich shares what he learned from more than two years helping Trump and his team throughout the campaign, the election, and during the first months of the presidency. Mr. Gingrich provides unique insight into how the new president's past experiences have shaped his life and style of governing. This book also includes Mr. Gingrich's thorough analysis of how President Trump thinks and makes decisions, as well as the president's philosophy, doctrine, and political agenda going forward. Further, these pages hold a detailed discussion of Trump-style solutions for national security, education, health care, economic growth, government reform, and other important topics. Mr. Gingrich also identifies the forces in the Washington establishment, media, and bureaucracy that will oppose the president at every turn. Finally, UNDERSTANDING TRUMP explains the president's actions so far and lays out a vision for what Americans can do to help make President Trump's agenda a success. The president owes his position to the people who believed in him as a candidate, not to the elites in government and media who have expressed contempt for him since he began his campaign to become president. The very essence of Trump's mission is a willingness to enact policies and set goals that send our country in a bold new direction - one that may be "unreasonable" to Washington but is sensible to millions of Americans outside the Beltway. Only with the country's help will President Trump be able to overcome the entrenched interests in Washington and fulfill his promise to make America great again for all Americans.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken

Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455540433

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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken Pdf

From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.

The Gingrich Senators

The Gingrich Senators by Sean M. Theriault Pdf

The Gingrich Senators by Sean M. Theriault Pdf

The Senate Syndrome by Steven S. Smith Pdf

The Stronghold by Thomas F. Schaller Pdf

Politics to the Extreme by S. Frisch,S. Kelly Pdf

42 by Michael Nelson,Barbara A. Perry,Russell L. Riley Pdf

Party Polarization in Congress by Sean M. Theriault Pdf

Asymmetric Politics by Matthew Grossmann,David A. Hopkins Pdf

Lion of the Senate by Nick Littlefield,David Nexon Pdf

Issues in American Politics by John Dumbrell Pdf

Burning Down the House by Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

Understanding American Politics, Third Edition by Stephen Brooks,Donald E. Abelson,Melissa Haussman Pdf

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less by Newt Gingrich Pdf

Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich Pdf

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken Pdf

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