Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Disruption? The Senate during the Trump EraFrank H. Mackaman and Sean M. TheriaultChapter 1: The Changing Senate's Unchanging RulesDonald A. RitchieChapter 2: The Filibuster and the Trump Senate: The View from the Mid-Twentieth Century American SouthJoseph CrespinoChapter 3: Trump's Senate: A Bicameral PerspectiveC. Lawrence EvansChapter 4: Unorthodox Legislating in Trump's SenateMolly E. ReynoldsChapter 5: High Stakes Negotiation: Reaching Agreement on Pandemic Aid in 2020Frances Lee, Bettina Poirier, and Christopher BetramChapter 6: The Surprisingly Effective Lawmaking of Minority-Party Democrats in the Senate during the Trump EraCraig Volden and Alan E. WisemanChapter 7: Leadership in the Modern SenateJames WallnerChapter 8: McConnell's President: The Anti-Institutionalist PartisanJulian E. ZelizerChapter 9: Trump's Disregard for Senate Norms and PrerogativesNiels LesniewskiChapter 10: Senate Communication in the Era of TrumpAnnelise RussellChapter 11: The Crisis of Senate LegitimacyLee DrutmanChapter 12: The End of the InstitutionalistChristina BellantoniChapter 13: Presidents, Congress, and the Politics of Unilateral ActionWilliam G. Howell and Terry M. MoeChapter 14: Afterward: The Future of the SenateSean M. TheriaultIndex
