caa a22 4500 477078656 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00151731 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00151731 Why does the Senate "win” in conference committee?: A stability explanation [Elektronische Daten] [Lydia Ortega, Lawrence McQuillan] This paper develops a bicameral stability model wherein the conference committee serves as a vehicle for mutually advantageous bicameral exchange. The goal is to maintain a single party's bicameral majority. Majority party leaders use the conference committee to attenuate the outlying positions of House standing committees that threaten the bicameral majority. Conference outcomes favor the Senate because it is more vulnerable to party turnover. Statistical results on data from the U.S. Congress, 1949 through 1991, demonstrate that when one party holds a bicameral majority, a relative increase in conference bills preserves at the margin, Senate majority-party seats at the expense of House majority-party seats. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Ortega Lydia Department of Economics, San Jose State University, 95192, San Jose, CA, U.S.A. aut McQuillan Lawrence Economic Issues, 179 East Franklin Street, P.O. Box 989, 27514, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A. aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 101-116 0048-5829 87:1-2<101 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151731 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151731 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ortega Lydia Department of Economics, San Jose State University, 95192, San Jose, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McQuillan Lawrence Economic Issues, 179 East Franklin Street, P.O. Box 989, 27514, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl/ 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 101-116 0048-5829 87:1-2<101 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer