The Party Whip Organizations in the United States House of Representatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3528619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall B Ripley (Brookings Institution, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-576 |
| Publication date | 1964-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1953132 |
| OpenAlex | W2102346075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 13 |
In the literature on political parties in the United States Congress two points are usually stressed. First, it is said that the political party label lacks a precise programmatic content because "party government" in the British sense is absent in the American Congress. Second, however, it is contended that the party label is the single most important and reliable attribute in predicting the voting behavior of a Senator or Representative.Between these two contentions lies a sizeable area of unexplored territory. If party is the best predictive device in analyzing voting behavior in Congress then, despite the lack of "party government," the party machinery in both houses must have effects that deserve study. Professor Huitt has suggested the necessity and importance of this kind of study: "... the preoccupation with reform has obscured the fact that we have no really adequate model of party leadership as it exists in Congress, and that none can be constructed because we lack simple descriptions of many of the basic working parts of the present system." Huitt himself and a few others have filled some of these gaps
Communism · Democracy · Divided government · Government (linguistics · House of Representatives · Law and economics · Party platform · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Split-ticket voting · Voting · Whip (tree · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration
Party Influence in Congress
Setting the Agenda
Stylized' Opposition in the U. S. House of Representatives
Divided Government and Democratic Presidents
How Legislatures Shape Policy and Budgets
The Importance of Winning Big
The Institutionalization of Leadership in the U. S. Congress
Dilemmas of Party Leadership
Bribing Voters
Where's the Party
Coalition-Building by Party Leaders
Who Whips
A institucionalização da câmara dos deputados dos Estados Unidos
The House Committee on Ways and Means
Rational Choice and Congressional Norms
Party Leadership Change in the United States House of Representatives
A New Theory of Congressional Compromise
Conditions for Party Leadership
Party and constituency
New perspectives on the House of Representatives.
My Quarter Century of American Politics
The British Parliament
American Politics and the Party System
An Introduction to the Senate Policy Committees
Democracy and the American Party System
The Senate Republican Policy Committee and Foreign Policy
Dimensions in Congressional Voting
Leadership in the House of Representatives
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2008 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |