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Rule breaking and political imagination
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Title
Rule breaking and political imagination / Kenneth A. Shepsle.
ISBN
9780226473185
022647318X
9780226473215
022647321X
9780226473352
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xii, 157 pages ; 22 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Basic ideas. Rule breaking
Imagination
Institutions, rule breaking, and imagination. Thick institutions and rule breaking: Sulla and Caesar, Reed and Johnson
Breaking rules in breaking the filibuster
Political imagination after filibuster reform: the postcloture filibuster and its demise
A third take on the filibuster: breaking rules by reinterpreting rules
Obstruction and urgency in the nineteenth-century House of Commons
Violating legislative rules: resolving bicameral differences
Stealing elections
Bits and bobs. King David and Old Testament rule breaking
Foreclosure, bankruptcy, and contract
Gimmickry
Intelligence agencies: breaking the rules by making up their own rules
Vigilantism.
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