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Building the Bloc - Intraparty Organization in the US Congress (Hardcover)
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Building the Bloc - Intraparty Organization in the US Congress (Hardcover)
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Traversing more than a century of American history, this book
advances a new theory of congressional organization to explain why
and how party dissidents rely on institutions of their own making,
arguing that these intraparty organizations can radically shift the
balance of power between party leaders and rank-and-file members.
Intraparty organizations empower legislators of varying ideological
stripes to achieve collective and coordinated action by providing
selective incentives to cooperative members, transforming
public-good policies into excludable accomplishments, and helping
members to institute rules and procedures to promote group decision
making. Drawing on rich archival evidence and interview data, the
book details the challenges dissident lawmakers encounter when they
face off against party leaders and their efforts to organize in
response. Eight case studies complicate our understanding of
landmark fights over rules reform, early twentieth-century economic
struggles, mid-century battles over civil rights legislation, and
contemporary debates over national health care and fiscal policy.
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