Votes, Money, And The Clinton Impeachment (Transforming American Politics Series (2002).) - Softcover

Morris, Irwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813398088 ISBN 13: 9780813398082

Publisher: Perseus, 2001

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Irwin Morris is associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina in 1994. He writes on monetary policy, executive-legislative relations, Southern politics and public opinion. He is also the author of Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve: The Politics of American Monetary Policymaking.

Synopsis:

Morris (government and politics, U. of Maryland) examines the issue of money as a force behind the positions taken by politicians during the attempt to impeach Clinton following the Lewinsky scandal. Rather than a history of the impeachment, this is a study of the legislative politics that determined its course, with attention to the issues of camp

About this edition

• Publisher: Perseus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0813398088
• ISBN 13: 9780813398082
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216