With the Peoples Consent

Howard Baker Leads the Senate 19771984

By (author) Michael P. Bobic

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Publication date:

24 November 2014

Length of book:

293 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761865025

With the People’s Consent explores Howard Baker’s ability to lead the United States Senate at a time when it was divided by partisanship and ideology. This book features a quantitative analysis of Senate leadership through roll call analysis, an evaluation of the advantages and difficulties in roll call data, and a discussion of data used to evaluate Baker’s leadership in the 95^th to 98^th Congress. With the People’s Consent addresses how the current instability of the Senate could be improved by looking toward Baker’s own success during a tumultuous time.

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Howard Baker and Leadership in the United States Senate
Chapter 2: Defining Terms and Approaches to Analyzing Roll Calls
Chapter 3: Modeling Baker’s Leadership in the Senate
Chapter 4: Howard Baker in the 95^th Congress: Leading through Cooperation
Chapter 5: Howard Baker in the 96^th Congress: Leading a Divided Senate
Chapter 6: Howard Baker as Majority Leader:Leadership through Coordination
Conclusions
Appendix A:The Clustering Method9
Appendix B: Explaining Poor Performance of the NOMINATE Measure
Bibliography
Index

With the People’s Consent is a careful, painstaking empirical analysis performed by a political scientist, and done to ascertain whether Baker’s positions “created statistically measurable changes in voting patterns.”