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Résumé :
What happens when a tradition-bound institution encounters an iconoclastic president intent on changing how the government operates? In Disruption?, Sean M. Theriault has gathered nineteen leading authors from a range of subfields to provide a compelling understanding for if, how, and to what extent Trump disrupted the Senate. As the authors argue, Trump became trapped in the norms and rules of the Senate on some dimensions, while he became the story to which all senators needed to respond on others. This book shows how multiple facets of the Senate changed during Trump's presidency, including the legislative process, party leadership, roll-call voting, and communications. Comprehensive in its coverage of the period and embedding it in a deep historical context, this book highlights how these changes reflected back on to not only the Trump administration, but also the very legitimacy of the Senate itself....

Biographie:
Sean M. Theriault is University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has authored dozens of articles and six books on the US Congress, including Congress: The First Branch (Oxford, 2020), The Great Broadening (2019), and The Gingrich Senators (Oxford, 2013). He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellow and UT's Professor of the Year.

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Sommaire:

• Introduction: Disruption? The Senate during the Trump Era


• Frank H. Mackaman and Sean M. Theriault


• Chapter 1: The Changing Senate's Unchanging Rules


• Donald A. Ritchie


• Chapter 2: The Filibuster and the Trump Senate: The View from the Mid-Twentieth Century American South


• Joseph Crespino


• Chapter 3: Trump's Senate: A Bicameral Perspective


• C. Lawrence Evans


• Chapter 4: Unorthodox Legislating in Trump's Senate


• Molly E. Reynolds


• Chapter 5: High Stakes Negotiation: Reaching Agreement on Pandemic Aid in 2020


• Frances Lee, Bettina Poirier, and Christopher Betram


• Chapter 6: The Surprisingly Effective Lawmaking of Minority-Party Democrats in the Senate during the Trump Era


• Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman


• Chapter 7: Leadership in the Modern Senate


• James Wallner


• Chapter 8: McConnell's President: The Anti-Institutionalist Partisan


• Julian E. Zelizer


• Chapter 9: Trump's Disregard for Senate Norms and Prerogatives


• Niels Lesniewski


• Chapter 10: Senate Communication in the Era of Trump


• Annelise Russell


• Chapter 11: The Crisis of Senate Legitimacy


• Lee Drutman


• Chapter 12: The End of the Institutionalist


• Christina Bellantoni


• Chapter 13: Presidents, Congress, and the Politics of Unilateral Action


• William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe


• Chapter 14: Afterward: The Future of the Senate


• Sean M. Theriault


• Index