Agenda Setting in the U.S. Senate: Costly Consideration and Majority Party Advantage

This book proposes a new theory of Senate agenda setting that reconciles a divide in literature between the conventional wisdom – in which party power is thought to be mostly, if not completely, undermined by Senate procedures and norms – and the apparent partisan bias in Senate decisions noted in recent empirical studies. Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe's theory revolves around a “costly consideration” framework for thinking about agenda setting, where moving proposals forward throug...