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Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873
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| Titel: | Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873/ Lee J. Alston, Jeffery A. Jenkins, Tomas Nonnenmacher |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge, Mass
National Bureau of Economic Research
December 2005
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NBER working paper series |
| Quelle: | Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen |
| Zusammenfassung: | We examine the politics of the "Salary Grab" of 1873, legislation that increased congressional salaries retroactively by 50 percent. A group of New England and Midwestern elites opposed the Salary Grab, along with congressional franking and patronage-based civil service appointments, as part of reform effort to reshape "who should govern Congress." Our analyses of congressional voting confirm the existence of this non-party elite coalition. While these elites lost many legislative battles in the short-run, their efforts kept reform on the legislative agenda throughout the late-nineteenth century and ultimately set the stage for the Progressive movement in the early-twentieth century |
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. |
| DOI: | 10.3386/w11908 |
| Zugang: | Open Access |