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Author Morris, Irwin

Title Votes, Money, and the Clinton Impeachment
Published Boulder : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; Introduction; Background; Briefly, the Facts; Legislative Politics in Unusual Times; What about ""the Public""?; Why Study the Clinton Impeachment?; What This Book Is Not; Chapter Outline; 2 The Scandal; House Response to the Report of the Independent Counsel; Appendix 2-1; 3 Public Opinion and the Clinton Impeachment; Evaluations of the President and Opinions on Impeachment; Explaining Opposition to Impeachment; Postscript: Public Opinion in the Aftermath
4 Representation and ImpeachmentBackground and Theory of Roll Call Voting; Estimating District-Level Opinion; Modeling Roll Call Voting on Impeachment; 5 Representation and Conviction; Institutional Distinctiveness of the House and Senate, and Why It Mattered for Impeachment; Roll Call Voting in the Senate; Voting on Conviction in the Senate; Estimating State-Level Opinion; Conclusion; 6 Making up: Impeachment, Fundraising, and Roll Calls in the House; Impeachment Votes and Campaign Funding; Conclusion; Appendix; 7 Electoral Aftermath: The Wages of Impeachment in the House
Impact of Impeachment Votes on Election Results: The HouseResults for the House of Representatives; Conclusion; 8 Making Up or Losing Out?: Fundraising and Impeachment in the Senate; Nature of Fundraising and Senate Campaigns; Conviction and Campaign Financing; Estimating the Effect of Unpopular Conviction Votes on Campaign Fundraising; Wages of Conviction; Conclusion; 9 The Usually Hidden Dangers of Politics as Usual; Notes; References; Index
Summary The politics of impeachment have been explained in either partisan or ethical terms. Morris argues that most legislators-and nearly all Democrats-simply voted their constituents' preferences on the Clinton impeachment and conviction. Those who voted against their constituencies did so for a variety of reasons, but all expected to be able to raise sufficient campaign funds to overcome their constituents' displeasure. The ability of incumbent Republicans to raise the huge campaign war chests offset their constituents' frustration with the Clinton impeachment and allowed them to maintain their majority party status in the House. Republican Senators were not as successful. Morris emphasizes the ways in which our current system of campaign finance both enabled the Republican leadership to impeach Clinton and allowed the Republicans to retain the House majority, and then he concludes with a discussion of the role of money in modern American politics
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Subject Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Impeachment
Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Public opinion
SUBJECT Clinton, Bill, 1946- fast
Subject United States. Congress. Senate -- Voting -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT United States. Congress. Senate fast
Subject Impeachments
Public opinion
Voting registers
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429982828
0429982828