Congressional and State Legislative Roll-Call Studies by U. S. Historians

Silbey, Joel H.

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“…As is the case with the original state legislatures, there is remarkably little scholarship on state legislatures in the nineteenth century. A spate of work by historians appeared in the 1970s, almost all of it studies of legislative roll-call voting that built on similar works in political science (Shade 1994, Silbey 1981, Thompson & Silbey 1985. But, as Silbey (1983, p. 617) admits, "historians [working on this era] have not expended much effort on questions about the internal workings and SQUIRE structural influences of legislatures.…”

Section: Legislative Evolution In the Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Historical Evolution of Legislatures in the United States

Squire

2006

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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This paper examines the evolution of legislatures in the United States beginning with the establishment of the first assembly in Virginia in 1619. Drawing on works by historians, it traces the development of the colonial assemblies as legislative institutions. The transition of assemblies to state legislatures is investigated, as is the underappreciated impact of the first state legislatures on the rules and structures given to the U.S. Congress in the Constitution. The effects of legislative generations are revealed by the state legislatures established during the nineteenth century, as newer legislatures were equipped from their start with the rules and committee systems evolved only over time by earlier legislatures. The continuing evolution of state legislatures after the nineteenth century is linked to the concept of legislative professionalization. Finally, the relationship between legislative evolution and membership turnover is examined, as is the idea that legislatures move in both directions on the evolutionary dimension.

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Section: Legislative Evolution In the Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Historical Evolution of Legislatures in the United States

Squire

2006

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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Current Historiographic Trends in the Study of the Twentieth-Century Congress

Silbey¹

2000

Social Science History

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Once upon a time, historians and political scientists expended a great deal of effort in tracing the complex development of the United States Congress in the twentieth century—a time, especially from the 1930s onward, during which Congress faced a remarkable expansion in government activity as a surge of new concerns, foreign and domestic, and, as a result, an unprecedented load of business, all but overwhelmed the institution. During this same time, Congress’s role within the American political system has been Social Science transformed in the face of the rise of the imperial presidency, the Supreme Court’s insistence on changing rules of representation, and the consequent shift in the institution’s makeup and internal power structure. Finally, public perceptions of Congress, increasingly negative as they have become, have had some significant impact on the transformation of Congress within the American political system as well (Sundquist 1981; Harris 1993; Rieselbach 1994).

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First Steps Toward a History of Congress

Silbey

1986

Congress & the Presidency

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Congressional and State Legislative Roll-Call Studies by U. S. Historians

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Historical Evolution of Legislatures in the United States

Historical Evolution of Legislatures in the United States

Current Historiographic Trends in the Study of the Twentieth-Century Congress

First Steps Toward a History of Congress

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