Daniel Wirls
Biographic Data
| ID | 381120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Wirls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wirls |
| SIGNATURE | WIRLS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender Neutrality Made Easy and Constitutional
How did we come to use and accept "congressman" and, later, "congresswoman" instead of "representative" as the nearly default designation for members of the House, while at the same time referring to senators exclusively by that title? And despite it being inherently inaccurate and unnecessarily binary, this convention for members of the House has gone unchallenged, even as gender-neutral language advances and even as the House of Representatives…
The Senate
Senate
Staggered Terms for the US Senate
This article provides the first detailed study of the origins of staggered Senate terms, which typically have been interpreted as part of the framers’ intent to create an insulated, stable, and conservative Senate. I draw upon three sources of evidence—the meaning and application of “rotation” in revolutionary America, the deliberations and decisions at the Constitutional Convention, and the arguments during Ratification—to show that the origins …
The “Golden Age” Senate And Floor Debate in the Antebellum Congress
An image of an antebellum “golden age” of Senate debate and deliberation has passed virtually unblemished from one generation of historians and political analysts to the next. In what ways, if any, is the image of a more deliberative Senate evident in the realities of antebellum House and Senate debates? In this article, I present a series of case studies to examine elements of the quantity and quality of floor debate in each chamber. By providin…
The Most Exclusive Club
Journal Article The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate Get access The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate. By Gould Lewis L.. (New York: Basic, 2005. xiv, 402 pp. $27.50, isbn0-465-02778-4.) Daniel Wirls Daniel Wirls University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 2, Sep…
Beyond Bias
Ellis and King preface the substance of their response by suggesting that Wirls “seeks a straw man,” and that “it is unfortunate that Wirls chose to present his evidence in terms of a critique rather than as a supplement to previous studies,” thereby pushing them “onto the defensive.” I do not think I have violated any rules of academic cricket and I am certainly not addressing a straw man. In their original article, “Partisan Advantage and Const…
Regionalism, Rotten Boroughs, Race, and Realignment
Struggles, both political and intellectual, over electoral structures – the legal arrangements, to borrow from Harold Lasswell, of who gets to vote for what, when, and how – are probably as old as democracy. Suffrage, its expansion and contraction, is no doubt the most prominent historical feature in the politics and study of electoral structures. But the “how” and “for what” of voting have also played crucial, though perhaps less understood, rol…
The Consequences of Equal Representation
This article contributes to an emerging effort to understand the representational consequences of equal apportionment in the United States Senate, through a study of bicameral action on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during the 103rd Congress. Like much of the congressional literature, previous studies of NAFTA focused on one chamber, the House, and the construction and testing of models of individual voting behavior. This articl…
Communication in Congress
Less than Meets the Eye
Buildup
Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era. By Daniel Wirk (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv + 247 pp. $31.50, ISBN 0-8014-2442-9.) Grant T. Hammond Grant T. Hammond Air War College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1692–1693, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080361 Published: 01 March 1993
Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
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The American Political Science Association Policy and Procedures for Permission to Reprint Articles, 1992
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Congress and the Politics of Military Reform
This essay offers a history and analysis of the politics of military reform during the Reagan presidency. Under the leadership of a diverse coalition within Congress, military reform briefly eclipsed both the Reagan buildup and nuclear arms control as the dominant defense policy agenda in the mid-1980s. Congressional sponsorship of military reform in the last decade was a product not only of the decentralization and democratization of the defense…
Reinterpreting the Gender Gap
This study offers an analysis of the recent political differences between women and men that contradicts the conventional description of the “gender gap” in American politics. Beginning with the 1980 elections, the differences between women and men in their opinions on political issues, in voting behavior, and in partisan identification frequently have been portrayed as a result of women's rejection of Reagan and of Republicans and conservative v…
Reinterpreting the Gender Gap
This study offers an analysis of the recent political differences between women and men that contradicts the conventional description of the “gender gap” in American politics. Beginning with the 1980 elections, the differences between women and men in their opinions on political issues, in voting behavior, and in partisan identification frequently have been portrayed as a result of women's rejection of Reagan and of Republicans and conservative v…
Staggered Terms for the US Senate
This article provides the first detailed study of the origins of staggered Senate terms, which typically have been interpreted as part of the framers’ intent to create an insulated, stable, and conservative Senate. I draw upon three sources of evidence—the meaning and application of “rotation” in revolutionary America, the deliberations and decisions at the Constitutional Convention, and the arguments during Ratification—to show that the origins …
The Most Exclusive Club
Journal Article The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate Get access The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate. By Gould Lewis L.. (New York: Basic, 2005. xiv, 402 pp. $27.50, isbn0-465-02778-4.) Daniel Wirls Daniel Wirls University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 2, Sep…
Regionalism, Rotten Boroughs, Race, and Realignment
Struggles, both political and intellectual, over electoral structures – the legal arrangements, to borrow from Harold Lasswell, of who gets to vote for what, when, and how – are probably as old as democracy. Suffrage, its expansion and contraction, is no doubt the most prominent historical feature in the politics and study of electoral structures. But the “how” and “for what” of voting have also played crucial, though perhaps less understood, rol…
The “Golden Age” Senate And Floor Debate in the Antebellum Congress
An image of an antebellum “golden age” of Senate debate and deliberation has passed virtually unblemished from one generation of historians and political analysts to the next. In what ways, if any, is the image of a more deliberative Senate evident in the realities of antebellum House and Senate debates? In this article, I present a series of case studies to examine elements of the quantity and quality of floor debate in each chamber. By providin…
Reinterpreting the Gender Gap
This study offers an analysis of the recent political differences between women and men that contradicts the conventional description of the “gender gap” in American politics. Beginning with the 1980 elections, the differences between women and men in their opinions on political issues, in voting behavior, and in partisan identification frequently have been portrayed as a result of women's rejection of Reagan and of Republicans and conservative v…
Congress and the Politics of Military Reform
This essay offers a history and analysis of the politics of military reform during the Reagan presidency. Under the leadership of a diverse coalition within Congress, military reform briefly eclipsed both the Reagan buildup and nuclear arms control as the dominant defense policy agenda in the mid-1980s. Congressional sponsorship of military reform in the last decade was a product not only of the decentralization and democratization of the defense…
Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The American Political Science Association Policy and Procedures for Permission to Reprint Articles, 1992
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Buildup
Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era. By Daniel Wirk (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv + 247 pp. $31.50, ISBN 0-8014-2442-9.) Grant T. Hammond Grant T. Hammond Air War College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1692–1693, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080361 Published: 01 March 1993
Less than Meets the Eye
Communication in Congress
The Consequences of Equal Representation
This article contributes to an emerging effort to understand the representational consequences of equal apportionment in the United States Senate, through a study of bicameral action on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during the 103rd Congress. Like much of the congressional literature, previous studies of NAFTA focused on one chamber, the House, and the construction and testing of models of individual voting behavior. This articl…
Beyond Bias
Ellis and King preface the substance of their response by suggesting that Wirls “seeks a straw man,” and that “it is unfortunate that Wirls chose to present his evidence in terms of a critique rather than as a supplement to previous studies,” thereby pushing them “onto the defensive.” I do not think I have violated any rules of academic cricket and I am certainly not addressing a straw man. In their original article, “Partisan Advantage and Const…
Regionalism, Rotten Boroughs, Race, and Realignment
Struggles, both political and intellectual, over electoral structures – the legal arrangements, to borrow from Harold Lasswell, of who gets to vote for what, when, and how – are probably as old as democracy. Suffrage, its expansion and contraction, is no doubt the most prominent historical feature in the politics and study of electoral structures. But the “how” and “for what” of voting have also played crucial, though perhaps less understood, rol…
The Most Exclusive Club
Journal Article The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate Get access The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate. By Gould Lewis L.. (New York: Basic, 2005. xiv, 402 pp. $27.50, isbn0-465-02778-4.) Daniel Wirls Daniel Wirls University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 2, Sep…
The “Golden Age” Senate And Floor Debate in the Antebellum Congress
An image of an antebellum “golden age” of Senate debate and deliberation has passed virtually unblemished from one generation of historians and political analysts to the next. In what ways, if any, is the image of a more deliberative Senate evident in the realities of antebellum House and Senate debates? In this article, I present a series of case studies to examine elements of the quantity and quality of floor debate in each chamber. By providin…
Staggered Terms for the US Senate
This article provides the first detailed study of the origins of staggered Senate terms, which typically have been interpreted as part of the framers’ intent to create an insulated, stable, and conservative Senate. I draw upon three sources of evidence—the meaning and application of “rotation” in revolutionary America, the deliberations and decisions at the Constitutional Convention, and the arguments during Ratification—to show that the origins …
The Senate
Senate
Gender Neutrality Made Easy and Constitutional
How did we come to use and accept "congressman" and, later, "congresswoman" instead of "representative" as the nearly default designation for members of the House, while at the same time referring to senators exclusively by that title? And despite it being inherently inaccurate and unnecessarily binary, this convention for members of the House has gone unchallenged, even as gender-neutral language advances and even as the House of Representatives…
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