Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Civility and Deliberation: A Linked Pair? 1 Burdett A. Loomis Part I. Civility in the U.S. Senate 15 2 Constitutional Cohabitation Ross K. Baker 3 Is the Senate More Civil than the House? 32 Eric M. Uslaner Part II. A Deliberative Institution 4 Individualism, Partisanship, and Cooperation in the Senate 59 Barbara Sinclair 5 The Procedural Context of Senate Deliberation 78 C. Lawrence Evans and Walter J. Oleszek 6 Last among Equals: The Senate’s Presiding Officer 105 Gerald Gamm and Steven S. Smith Part III. Senate Deliberation in Context 7 Constituency Size and the Strategic Behavior of Senators 137 Bruce I. Oppenheimer 8 Senators and Reporters Revisited 164 Timothy E. Cook 9 The Senate and the Executive 194 Roger H. Davidson and Colton C. Campbell Part IV. Civility and Deliberation in Practice 10 Civility, Deliberation, and Impeachment 223 Norman J. Ornstein 11 The Senate Budget Committee: Bastion of Comity? 241 James A. Thurber Contributors 259 Index 261 vi contents ...