Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Let’s Begin With the Senate: An Introduction to U.S. Senate Exceptionalism
2. Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Looking for the Senate: Reminiscences and Residuals
Senate Elections
3. Alan I. Abramowitz, Party Realignment, Ideological Polarization, and Voting Behavior in U.S. Senate Elections
4. Kim Fridkin Kahn and Patrick J. Kenney, Ideological Portrayals during U.S. Senate Campaigns
5. Robert S. Erikson, Explaining National Party Tides in Senate Elections: Macropartisanship, Policy Mood, and Ideological Balancing
The Senate as a Representative Institution
6. John R. Alford and John R. Hibbing, Electoral Convergence in the U.S. Congress
7. Wendy J. Schiller, Sharing the Same Home Turf: How Senators from the Same State Compete for Geographic Electoral Support
8. Patrick J. Sellers, Winning Media Coverage in the U. S. Congress
Committees, Parties, and Leaders in the Senate
9. David T. Canon and Charles Stewart III, Parties and Hierarchies in Senate Committees, 1789–1946
10. Joseph Cooper and Elizabeth Rybicki, Analyzing Institutional Change: Bill Introduction in the Nineteenth-Century Senate
11. Gerald Gamm and Steven S. Smith, Emergence of Senate Party Leadership
The Senate as a Policymaking Institution
12. Barbara Sinclair, The “60-Vote Senate”: Strategies, Process, and Outcomes
13. C. Lawrence Evens, How Senators Decide: An Exploration
14. Frances E. Lee, Representational Power and Distributive Politics: Senate Influence on Federal Transportation Spending
Lessons from Impeachment
15. Ross K. Baker, Examining Individualism versus Senate Folkways in the Aftermath of the Clinton Impeachment
16. Burdett A. Loomis, Explaining Impeachment: The Exceptional Institution Confronts the Unique Experience
Concluding Thoughts on Senate Exceptionalism
17. David W. Rohde, Seeing the House and Senate Together: Some Reflections on the Research on the Exceptional Senate
18. Lawrence C. Dodd, Making Sense out of Our Exceptional Senate: Perspectives and Commentary
References
Contributors
Index