A Partisan Theory of Obstruction and Procedural Change

Douglas Dion

doi:10.3998/mpub.14912.6

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A Partisan Theory of Obstruction and Procedural Change

Douglas Dion

Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew, p.21

University of Michigan Press

05/06/2010

DOI: 10.3998/mpub.14912.6

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Abstract

One of the enduring beliefs about politics, held by politicians as well as academicians, is that smaller parties tend to be more cohesive. The importance of party size in explaining party discipline was emphasized in political science as early as 1902, when A. Lawrence Lowell presented his pathbreaking analysis of roll call votes in “The Influence of Party upon Legislation in England and America”: The falling off in the percentage of party votes among the Liberals in 1899 was due, of course, to their being in opposition instead of being in power, and the fact that the party votes of

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Title: Subtitle: A Partisan Theory of Obstruction and Procedural Change
Creators: Douglas Dion
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew, p.21
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.14912.6
Language: English
Date published: 05/06/2010
Academic Unit: Political Science
Record Identifier: 9983982927202771

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