No Rights on This Floor: Third Parties and the Institutionalization of Congress

Argersinger, Peter H.

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“…The adoption of Reed's Rules replaced the ability of minority party members to delay bill debate by refusing to participate in quorum counting procedures (Argersinger 1992;Cooper and Young 1989). Reed's Rules, adopted in tandem with rules regarding the previous question, motions to reconsider, and the five-minute rule gave the majority party more power to control the House floor procedure.…”

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“…Additionally, civil service reforms like the 1883 Pendleton Act 4 lessened parties' ability to ensure loyalty through patronage. Due to these changes, Congress became less vulnerable to minority party influence, new members, and new parties and could become more informed about pending legislation, resulting in a decreased need of sunset provisions (Argersinger 1992).…”

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Flexible law: the impact of legislative resources on policy adoption

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Legislators require knowledge to pass legislation. However, it is not always easy for legislators to become fully informed about bills on the docket. The complexity of modern government, the size of the legislative agenda, and the demands of running for re-election make it impossible for legislators to become experts on each issue on which the government makes policy. As a result, they take cues and guidance from lobbyists (Hall and Deardorff 2006), committees (Krehbiel 1991), constituents (Jones and Baumgartner 2005), and each other (Kingdon 1989) to make decisions on bills as if they were fully informed. Despite these resources, legislators are not always well-informed about every bill under consideration in their legislature. Therefore, legislatures sometimes add sunset provisions to bills to allow for a test period. Prior research has not thoroughly examined how the lack of legislative resources impacts public policy adoption -- specifically, under what circumstances do legislators decide to attach sunset provisions to legislation? Using original datasets, this study finds that sunset provisions are used during times of legislative uncertainty, such as when legislatures are not fully institutionalized.

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Section: The Partisan Era 1830s-1900smentioning

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Section: The Partisan Era 1830s-1900smentioning

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Flexible law: the impact of legislative resources on policy adoption

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No Rights on This Floor: Third Parties and the Institutionalization of Congress

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