Conservative Reformers: The Freshman Republicans in the 104th Congress
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104th Congress
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American political institutions
Author_Nicol C. Rae
Balanced Budget
Balanced Budget Amendment
battle
budget
Budget Battle
Campaign Finance Reform
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Committee Chairs
congressional freshman impact study
congressional institutional change
electoral accountability
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Freshman Class
Freshman Members
Freshman Republican Members
freshmen
gingrich
Government Shutdown
house
House Freshmen
House GOP
House GOP Freshman
House Republican
House Republican Freshmen
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legislative behavior
line
members
newt
PAC Contribution
party polarization
Republican Freshmen
Republican House Candidates
Republican Revolution
Rick Santorum
Senate Freshmen
Senate Republican Conference
Senior Republicans
separation of powers theory
Single Member Districts
veto
Welfare Reform
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- ISBN 9780765601285
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nicol Rae's engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries' freshman year in Congress persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force in our remarkably stable political system. The 73 Republican freshmen who entered the House of Representatives after the 1994 election were a well-organized group with majority status and a commitment to change. This book examines the extent to which they were successful in redirecting policy and reforming the institutions of representative government -- and the extent to which those same institutions moderated, and even frustrated, efforts to introduce radical, rapid -- indeed revolutionary -- change. Contrasts are drawn both with the role of the Republican freshmen in the Senate and with the power of the President as manifested in the 1995-96 budget battle. The book is based on interviews conducted by the author when he was an APSA Congressional Fellow in the offices of Rep. George P. Radanovich, president of the freshman Republican class, and Sen. Thad Cochran, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.
