Causal inference and American political development: the case of the gag rule
We investigate the “gag rule”, a parliamentary device that from 1836 to 1844 barred the US House of Representatives from receiving petitions concerning the abolition of slavery. In the mid-1830s, the gag rule emerged as a partisan strategy to keep slavery off the congressional agenda, amid growing a...
Main Authors: | Jenkins, Jeffery A., Stewart III, Charles H |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128275 |
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