The motion to recommit (MTR), a procedure sometimes used in the House, is the subject of recent debate, regarding whether the motion undermines the majority party’s ability to manipulate outcomes in ...

Though we know much about majority party agenda control in the House of Representatives during the “modern” period from the 1890’s forward, far less is known about agenda control prior to that time. There ...

There are three exhaustive and mutually exclusive models that characterize legislatures: the government (or majority party) dominated, the consensual, and the chaotic model. Each model provides a different ...

Congressional organization and politics seems to change roughly every generation. The literature has identified 12 eras of congressional organization—outlined in Table 1 (see Galloway 1976, Hinckley ...

We find strong evidence that governing coalitions in Italy exercise significant negative agenda powers. First, governing parties have a roll rate that is nearly zero, and their roll rate is lower than ...