Part I. Costly Consideration: 1. Costly consideration and the majority's advantage; 2. The textbook senate and partisan policy influence; 3. The costly-consideration agenda-setting theory
Part II. Senate Procedure and Consideration Costs:4. Committees and senate agenda setting; 5. Scheduling bills in the senate; 6. The effects of filibusters; 7. The disposition of majority and minority amendments; 8. Killing amendments with tabling motions and points of order; 9. The effects of amendments
Part III. Testing the Costly-Consideration Theory: 10. Testing our model; 11. Implications of costly consideration
Appendix A: Relaxing the model's assumptions
Appendix B: Last actions and coding amendment disposition.
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Agenda setting in the U.S. Senate : costly consideration and majority party advantage by Chris Den Hartog. ISBN 9781107006461. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
