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Paul J. Quirk Sopp, James Reber 2015-09-25T20:49:36Z 2015-09-25T20:49:36Z 10000-01-01 1999 1999 The goal of this dissertation is to make a series of interrelated points regarding the relationship between ideas, institutions, and behavior with respect to indirect election and the United States Senate. The dissertation begins with an investigation of the origins and development of the Classical Republican and Classical Liberal principles that laid the foundation for indirect election in the American Constitution. The dissertation then goes on to explore the institutional, socioeconomic, and political factors responsible for the decline in the popularity of indirect election of the federal Senate in the aftermath of the Civil War. The dissertation then presents a detailed analysis of U.S. Senate roll call votes related to issues of federal power (vis-a-vis state power) and broad socioeconomic interests (vis-a-vis narrow socioeconomic interests) to investigate what impact direct and indirect election had upon the voting behavior of Senators. Finally, the dissertation investigates the impact of direct and indirect election upon the outcome of national elections, i.e. the frequency of divided government, the frequency of split Congresses, the average length of a single party's majority control of the Senate, the disruption of seat to vote ratios, and the question of partisan advantage. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:49:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9921736.pdf: 10536646 bytes, checksum: 4051feb5a39c5d82f744469de1fbf0ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83881 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 216 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82600 (MiAaPQ)AAI9921736 eng History, United States Indirect Election and the Democratization of the United States Senate: Constitutional Design, Historical Development, Roll Call Voting, and the Outcome of National Election text Political Science Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.