Rule breaking and political imagination

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepsle, Kenneth A (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Basic ideas
  • Rule breaking
  • Imagination
  • Institutions, rule breaking, and imagination
  • Thick institutions and rule breaking: Sulla and Caesar, Reed and Johnson
  • Breaking rules in breaking the filibuster
  • Political imagination after filibuster reform: the postcloture filibuster and its demise
  • A third take on the filibuster: breaking rules by reinterpreting rules
  • Obstruction and urgency in the nineteenth-century House of Commons
  • Violating legislative rules: resolving bicameral differences
  • Stealing elections
  • Bits and bobs
  • King David and Old Testament rule breaking
  • Foreclosure, bankruptcy, and contract
  • Gimmickry
  • Intelligence agencies: breaking the rules by making up their own rules
  • Vigilantism.