Supermajority Rule in the U.S. Senate

Bibliographic Data

ID7945841
AuthorsDavid R Mayhew (0009-0003-0445-5950, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume36
Issue01
Pages31-36
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1049096503001653
OpenAlexW4205090265
LanguageEN
Citations received13

For this occasion, I decided to tackle a topic of, I hope, some historical and theoretical interest, of current policy importance and one that might have interested James Madison.I would like to thank Alan Gerber and Eric Schickler for their help on this work. A useful clarifying point came from Morris Fiorina. Matthew Glassman helped with the references. That topic is supermajority rule in the U.S. Senate—that is, the need to win more than a simple majority of senators to pass laws. Great checker and balancer though Madison was, this feature of American institutional life would probably have surprised him and might have distressed him

Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy

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