5. Agenda Power in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1877–1986

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Tables xv
5. Figures xix
6. Acknowledgments xxii
7. 1. Party, Process, and Political Change: New Perspectives on the History of Congress 1
8. Part I Parties, Committees, and Political Change in Congress
9. 2. The Historical Variability in Conditional Party Government, 1877–1994 17
10. 3. Do Parties Matter? 36
11. 4. Party and Preference in Congressional Decision Making: Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives, 1889–1999 64
12. 5. Agenda Power in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1877–1986 107
13. 6. Agenda Power in the U.S. Senate, 1877–1986 146
14. 7. Party Loyalty and Committee Leadership in the House, 1921– 40 166
15. Part II The Evolution and Choice of Congressional Institutions
16. 8. Order from Chaos: The Transformation of the Committee System in the House, 1816 –22 195
17. 9. Leadership and Institutional Change in the Nineteenth- Century House 237
18. 10. Institutional Evolution and the Rise of the Tuesday-Thursday Club in the House of Representatives 270
19. 11. Policy Leadership and the Development of the Modern Senate 287
20. Part III Policy Choice and Congressional Institutions
21. 12. Why Congress? What the Failure of the Confederation Congress and the Survival of the Federal Congress Tell Us About the New Institutionalism 315
22. 13. Agenda Manipulation, Strategic Voting, and Legislative Details in the Compromise of 1850 343
23. 14. Congress and the Territorial Expansion of the United States 392
24. 15. Representation of the Antebellum South in the House of Representatives: Measuring the Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause 452
25. Afterword: History as a Laboratory 471
26. Notes 473
27. Works Cited 501
28. Name Index 525
29. Subject Index 533