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Author Dion, Douglas, 1961-

Title Turning the legislative thumbscrew : minority rights and procedural change in legislative politics / Douglas Dion
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation
Contents Minority Rights in Legislatures -- A Partisan Theory of Obstruction and Procedural Change -- Evidence from the U.S. House, 1837-95 -- Testing Assumptions and Links -- Rules Changes in the Antebellum House -- Rules Changes in the Gilded Age -- The Missing Rules Changes -- Evidence from Other Institutions -- The U.S. Senate -- Going Abroad: The House of Commons and the Austrian Parliament
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index
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Subject United States. Congress -- Rules and practice.
United States. Congress.
Parliamentary practice -- United States
Legislative bodies -- United States.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Legislative bodies.
Parliamentary practice.
Parlamentsrecht
Minderheitsfraktion
CONGRESSO NACIONAL -- ESTADOS UNIDOS.
PODER LEGISLATIVO -- ESTADOS UNIDOS.
United States.
USA
USA.
Genre/Form Rules.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97022819
ISBN 9780472022694
0472022695