The Election of Senators
Author | : George Henry Haynes |
Publisher | : N.Y., Henry Holt, [c1906 . |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : George Henry Haynes |
Publisher | : N.Y., Henry Holt, [c1906 . |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Wendy J. Schiller |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-12-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691163170 |
How U.S. senators were chosen prior to the Seventeenth Amendment—and the consequences of Constitutional reform From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people—instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate investigates the electoral connections among constituents, state legislators, political parties, and U.S. senators during the age of indirect elections. Wendy Schiller and Charles Stewart find that even though parties controlled the partisan affiliation of the winning candidate for Senate, they had much less control over the universe of candidates who competed for votes in Senate elections and the parties did not always succeed in resolving internal conflict among their rank and file. Party politics, money, and personal ambition dominated the election process, in a system originally designed to insulate the Senate from public pressure. Electing the Senate uses an original data set of all the roll call votes cast by state legislators for U.S. senators from 1871 to 1913 and all state legislators who served during this time. Newspaper and biographical accounts uncover vivid stories of the political maneuvering, corruption, and partisanship—played out by elite political actors, from elected officials, to party machine bosses, to wealthy business owners—that dominated the indirect Senate elections process. Electing the Senate raises important questions about the effectiveness of Constitutional reforms, such as the Seventeenth Amendment, that promised to produce a more responsive and accountable government.
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : George Rothwell Brown |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : United States. Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1376 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Law |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : United States. Congress Senate |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Earl John Mohn |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate |
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Total Pages | : 102 |
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Author | : Marc C. Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0806169745 |
While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention—despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho’s Frank Church, South Dakota’s George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa, and Birch Bayh of Indiana, Marc C. Johnson tells the story of the beginnings of the divisive partisanship that has become a constant feature of American politics. The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1954 but also fundamentally altered the conduct of American politics. The incumbents were politicians of national reputation who often worked with members of the other party to accomplish significant legislative objectives—but they were, Johnson suggests, unprepared and ill-equipped to counter nakedly negative emotional appeals to the “politically passive voter.” Such was the campaign of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), the organization founded by several young conservative political activists who targeted these four senators for defeat. Johnson describes how such groups, amassing a great amount of money, could make outrageous and devastating claims about incumbents—“baby killers” who were “soft on communism,” for example—on behalf of a candidate who remained above the fray. Among the key players in this sordid drama are NCPAC chairman Terry Dolan; Washington lobbyist Charles Black, a top GOP advisor to several presidential campaigns and one-time business partner of Paul Manafort; and Roger Stone, self-described “dirty trickster” for Richard Nixon and confidant of Donald Trump. Connecting the dots between the Goldwater era of the 1960s and the ascent of Trump, Tuesday Night Massacre charts the radicalization of the Republican Party and the rise of the independent expenditure campaign, with its divisive, negative techniques, a change that has deeply—and perhaps permanently—warped the culture of bipartisanship that once prevailed in American politics.