Committee Politics in the Antebellum Senate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6182325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Sievert (0000-0002-7937-7024, Political Science, Texas Tech University, corresponding author), Joel Sievert |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-194 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Congress & the Presidency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-3469 • E-ISSN: 1944-1053 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07343469.2020.1790691 |
| OpenAlex | W3045595746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Although the Senate did not have standing committees for its first several decades, the system adopted in the early nineteenth century has endured for over two centuries. Previous research on early Senate committees focuses broadly on their general development and evolution or explores how parties came to control committee politics. While both of these approaches advance our understanding of the Senate’s institutional development, we know comparatively less about which interests were represented on committees. In order to better understand this component of committee politics, I examine how sectional and state-level interests influenced the politics of committee assignments in the antebellum Senate
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Emergence of Legislative Institutions
Property Rights and the Emergence of Standing Committee Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century House
Electoral Reform and Changes in Legislative Behavior
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |