Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: "The Senate Goes On" - Changing the Slow Institution, 1960 - 2010 -- Chapter 1 - The U.S. Senate in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2 - U.S. Senate Elections in a Polarized Era -- Chapter 3 - A Half-Century of Bicameralism -- Chapter 4 - The Changing Careers of Senators, 1960-2010: Coming, Going, Choosing -- Chapter 5 - Senate Parties and Party Leadership, 1960-2010 -- Chapter 6 - Individual and Partisan Activism on the Senate Floor -- Chapter 7 - The Senate Syndrome -- Chapter 8 - The Filibuster Then and Now: Civil Rights in the 1960s and Financial Regulation, 2009-2010 -- Chapter 9 - Advice and Consent in the "Slow" Senate -- Chapter 10 - Congress and Energy Policy, 1960-2010: A Long-Term Evaluation -- Chapter 11 - The Senate and Foreign Policy -- Chapter 12 - Looking Back to See Ahead: The Senate in the Twenty-First Century -- Index. |