David W. Brady is Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values at Stanford University. His books include Revolving Gridlock (1998), Critical Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives (Stanford, 1988), and Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress (Stanford, 2002). Mathew D. McCubbins is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The Logic of Delegation, Legislative Leviathan, and Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress (Stanford, 2002).

"Theoretically and historically sophisticated, data rich, and often methodologically advanced. Congressional scholars will find this volume to be of inestimable value."—CHOICE "Once again, Brady and McCubbins have done a masterful job of producing a volume that is distinguished by the quality of the authors and the quality of the chapters. Each and every chapter brings theory and practice to bear to explain how and why important aspects of congressional structure, process, and policy making have changed over time. As in the first volume, the results fill gaping holes in our understanding of Congress and its role in representative government." —Joseph Cooper, Johns Hopkins University "This book should be of considerable interest to scholars of Congress and American political development. Among its contributors are some of the very best in the field, along with younger scholars who are rapidly making names for themselves."—Keith Dougherty, University of Georgia

• Contents List of Contributors000 List of Equations000 List of Figures and Tables000 1.American Political Geography David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins000 Part IExternal Influences on Congress Section 1Progressive Era 2.What Did the Direct Primary Do to Party Loyalty in Congress? Stephen Ansolabehere, Shigeo Hirano, and James M. Snyder Jr.000 3.The Effects of Presidential Elections on Party Control of the Senate under Indirect and Direct Elections Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell000 4.The Dynamics of Senate Voting: Ideological Shirking and the 17th Amendment William Bernhard and Brian R. Sala000 5.The Electoral Connection: Career Building and Constituency Representation in the U.S. Senate in the Age of Indirect Elections Wendy J. Schiller000 6.The First "Southern Strategy": The Republican Party and Contested-Election Cases in the Late 19th-Century House Jeffery A. Jenkins000 Section 2Postwar Period 7.Explaining the Ideological Polarization of the Congressional Parties since the 1970s Gary C. Jacobson000 8.One D Is Not Enough: Measuring Conditional Party Government, 1887\-2002 John H. Aldrich, David W. Rohde, and Michael W. Tofias000 9.Who Parties? Floor Voting, District Ideology, and Electoral Margins Brandice Canes-Wrone, Julia Rabinovich, and Craig Volden000 Part IIInternal Changes in Congress Section 119th-Century Development of Congress 10.Architect or Tactician? Henry Clay and the Institutional Development of the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Stewart III000 11.Committee Composition in the Absence of a Strong Speaker Chris Den Hartog and Craig Goodman000 12.Roll-Call Behavior and Career Advancement: Analyzing Committee Assignments from Reconstruction to the New Deal Craig Goodman and Timothy P. Nokken000 13.The Evolution of Agenda-Setting Institutions in Congress: Path Dependency in House and Senate Institutional Development Jason M. Roberts and Steven S. Smith000 Section 2Progressive Era 14.Filibuster Reform in the Senate, 1913\-1917 Gregory Koger000 15.Cloture Reform Reconsidered Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler000 16.Candidates, Parties, and the Politics of U.S. House Elections across Time Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts000 17.Speaker David Henderson and the Partisan Era of the U.S. House Charles J. Finocchiaro and David W. Rohde000 Section 3Postwar Period 18.The Motion to Recommit in the House: The Creation, Evisceration, and Restoration of a Minority Right Donald R. Wolfensberger000 19.The Motion to Recommit in the U.S. House of Representatives Gary W. Cox, Chris Den Hartog, and Mathew D. McCubbins000 20.The Motion to Recommit: More Than an Amendment? D. Roderick Kiewiet and Kevin Roust000 21.An Evolving End Game: Partisan Collusion in Conference Committees, 1953\-2003 Robert Parks Van Houweling000 Section 4Postbellum Trends 22.Bicameral Resolution in Congress, 1863\-2002 Elizabeth Rybicki000 23.The Electoral Disconnection: Roll-Call Behavior in Lame-Duck Sessions of the House of Representatives, 1879\-1933 Timothy P. Nokken000 Part IIIPolicy 24.Measuring Significant Legislation, 1877\-1948 Joshua D. Clinton and John S. Lapinksi000 25.The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: An Instrumental Interpretation Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Barry R. Weingast000 26.Power Rejected: Congress and Bankruptcy in the Early Republic Erik Berglof and Howard Rosenthal000 Afterword David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins000 Notes000 References000 Index000