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McDonald, Michael. and McDonald, Zachary. "Heresthetics at Work? How a Strengthened Liberal House Came to Pass Anti-Labor Legislation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208816_index.html>

McDonald, M. D. and McDonald, Z. D. , 2007-08-30 "Heresthetics at Work? How a Strengthened Liberal House Came to Pass Anti-Labor Legislation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208816_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Reflecting on the 1959 passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act, Richard Bolling (D, MO), an insider in Speaker Rayburn�s leadership circle, wrote this: �ironically, the most pro-labor House in twenty years enacted a bill with numerous anti-labor provisions.� His reference is to the sharp incongruity between two facts. Democrats won a major 1958 election victory, but the House they controlled passed labor legislation that placed even tighter restrictions on unions than had the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act passed by a Republican-controlled Congress. To explain Bolling�s cosmic irony, we rely on three intensive case studies and roll call analysis. We look to William Riker�s framework of heresthetical maneuvers as a potential framework for explanation. Despite some artful maneuvering and sophisticated voting, heresthetical maneuvering falls short of providing a cohesive answer for the anti-labor bill�s passage. Rather, detailed inspection of the legislative process tells us the story turns out to be one of pivotal politics, as told by Keith Kreihbiel. The artful maneuvering in both directions, one side trying to pull the outcome away from the median member�s preference and the other side trying to push the outcome back toward it�are evident. Heresthetics plus majority numbers are a powerful combination in a democracy. We conclude that passage of the anti-labor bill is a story of democracy as a slow moving process the outcomes of which tend toward the preference of the median voter.

Democratic Competition and Union Growth: Tracing the Relationship between Splits in the American Labor Movement and Union Growth

The Vote Not Taken: How Omnibus Spending Bills Help Majorities Tame the Senate Floor

Why do Senators Vote Against Majority Rule in the Senate?