TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiller,Wendy J.
AU  - Stewart,Charles
TI  - Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment 
T2  - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
SN  - 9780691163178
AV  - JK1965 .S45 2017
U1  - 328.730734 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Senate elections
KW  - Senate representation
KW  - Senate seat
KW  - Seventeenth Amendment
KW  - U.S. Constitution
KW  - U.S. Senate
KW  - U.S. senator
KW  - direct election
KW  - direct elections
KW  - electoral systems
KW  - federalism
KW  - indirect election
KW  - indirect elections
KW  - institutional representation
KW  - legislative activity
KW  - partisanship
KW  - party caucus
KW  - political candidates
KW  - political control
KW  - political corruption
KW  - political parties
KW  - political party leaders
KW  - public vote
KW  - representational behavior
KW  - senators
KW  - state elections
KW  - state legislator
KW  - state legislature
KW  - state legislatures
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. A Theory of Indirect Election --; Chapter 3. Candidate Emergence, Political Ambition, and Seat Value --; Chapter 4. Party as Gatekeeper: Canvass, Convention, and Caucus as Nomination Mechanisms --; Chapter 5. Political Dynamics and Senate Representation --; Chapter 6. Senate Electoral Responsiveness under Indirect and Direct Election --; Chapter 7. Myth and Reality of the Seventeenth Amendment --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people-instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate investigates the electoral connections among constituents, state legislators, political parties, and U.S. senators during the age of indirect elections. Wendy Schiller and Charles Stewart find that even though parties controlled the partisan affiliation of the winning candidate for Senate, they had much less control over the universe of candidates who competed for votes in Senate elections and the parties did not always succeed in resolving internal conflict among their rank and file. Party politics, money, and personal ambition dominated the election process, in a system originally designed to insulate the Senate from public pressure.Electing the Senate uses an original data set of all the roll call votes cast by state legislators for U.S. senators from 1871 to 1913 and all state legislators who served during this time. Newspaper and biographical accounts uncover vivid stories of the political maneuvering, corruption, and partisanship-played out by elite political actors, from elected officials, to party machine bosses, to wealthy business owners-that dominated the indirect Senate elections process. Electing the Senate raises important questions about the effectiveness of Constitutional reforms, such as the Seventeenth Amendment, that promised to produce a more responsive and accountable government
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852680
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