Ruth Bloch Rubin

Building the Bloc

Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers? When they organize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 166mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781316649923
• ISBN-10: 131664992X
• Artikelnr.: 48398960

Autorenporträt

Ruth Bloch Rubin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Intraparty organization in the US Congress
2. Procedural revolt and the House insurgency, 1908-10
3. The Senate insurgency's quest for economic reform, 1909-10
4. Securing southern solidarity, 1937-56
5. The decline of southern influence, 1957-64
6. Making the moderates matter, 1994-2010
7. Coordinating liberal hardliners, 1957-94
8. Organizing conservative revolutionaries, 1970-2015
9. Rethinking the mischiefs of faction.