Party, Process, and Political Change:

New Perspectives on the History of Congress

Edited by DAVID W. BRADY and MATHEW D. MCCUBBINS

Stanford University Press, 2002

Contents

1 Introduction: Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: New Perspectives on the History of Congress

David Brady and Mat McCubbins

Part I: Parties, Committees and Political Change in Congress

2 The Historical Variability in Conditional Party Government, 1877-1986

John H. Aldrich, Mark Berger, and David Rohde

3 Do Parties Matter?

Barbara Sinclair

4 Party and Preference in Congressional Decision Making: Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives, 1889-1997

Joe Cooper and Garry Young

5 Agenda Power in the House of Representatives

Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins

6 Agenda Power in the Senate, 1877 to 1986

Andrea Campbell, Gary Cox, and Mathew McCubbins

7 Party Loyalty and Committee Leadership in the House, 1921-40

Brian R. Sala

Part II: The Evolution and Choice of Congressional Institutions

8 Order from Chaos: The Transformation of the Committee System in the House, 1810-1822

Jeffrey Jenkins and Charles Stewart III

9 Leadership and Institutional Change in the Nineteenth-Century House

Randall Strahan

10 Institutional Evolution and the Rise of the Tuesday-Thursday Club in the House of Representatives

Timothy P. Nokken and Brian R. Sala

11 Policy Leadership and the Development of the Modern Senate

Gerald Gamm and Steve Smith

Part III: Policy Choice and Congressional Institutions

12 Why Congress? What the Failure of the Continental and the Survival of the Federal Congress Tell Us about the New Institutionalism

John Aldrich, Calvin Jillson, and Rick Wilson

13 Process and Substance in the Compromise of 1850: Agenda Manipulation, Strategic Voting, and Legislative Details

Sean M. Theriault and Barry Weingast

14 Congress and the Territorial Expansion of the United States

Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal

15 The Representation of the Antebellum South in the House of Representatives: Measuring the Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause

Brian D. Humes, Elaine K. Swift,Richard Valelly, Kenneth Finegold, and Evelyn C. Fink

Afterword: History as a Laboratory

David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins

References

This volume is the result of a series of three conferences held at UC San Diego and Stanford University. These conferences and this publication was subsidized by the Social Science History Institute at Stanford University and the UC San Diego Committee on Research and Public Policy Research Program.