Chris Den Hartog is an assistant professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University. He has published articles and chapters about the legislative process in Congress, its evolution across history, and its effects on congressional policy making. Professor Den Hartog's work includes studies of the nineteenth-century House and the contemporary House and Senate.
Preface
Part I: 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. Consideration Costs in the Senate: 4. Committees and senate agenda setting
5. Scheduling bills in the Senate
6. Effects of filibusters
7. Disposition of majority and minority amendments
8. Killing amendments with tabling motions and points of order
9. 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.
