Party Leadership in the U. S. Senate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7329406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel C Patterson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-393 |
| Publication date | 1989-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/439886 |
| OpenAlex | W2321360869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
The first steps in understanding U. S. Senate party leadership require mapping and analyzing its properties and problematics. Here, Senate leadership is characterized as situational, personalized, partisan, collegial, and mediating. Senate leaders face perplexing institutional problems-problems of context, management, party, succession, the leader's role, and external relations. Investigating the salient features of Senate leadership and the institutional problems leaders confront will contribute to analyses of leaders' behavior. The United States Senate is as remarkable a political body as ever. Surely it has changed in various ways in the post-World-War-II years, and these changes rightfully excite the interest ofjournalistic and academic observers. But the import of recent changes in the Senate are easy to exaggerate. The most important and indelible change in the Senate came many years ago, around the turn of the century, when the institution came to be what it is today. One historian has said that by 1900
Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
Leadership in the Slow Lane
Changing Patterns of Voting Agreement Among Senatorial Leadership 1947-1976
Roll Call
Stylistic Change in the U.S. Senate
Changing the Guard in the U. S. Senate
Congressional Leadership Selection and Support
Senate Styles and Senate Decision Making, 1955-1980
Party Whips in the United States Senate
Legislative Leadership and Political Ideology
Policy Partisanship in Legislative Leadership Recruitment and Behavior
Party Voting in the United States Congress
Institutional Context and Leadership Style
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2002 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |