{"id":698217,"date":"2021-08-05T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=698217"},"modified":"2021-08-05T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:01:20","slug":"control-of-the-us-senate-what-does-history-tell-us-about-how-much-it-affects-legislative-policymaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=698217","title":{"rendered":"Control of the US Senate: What does history tell us about how much it affects legislative policymaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the U.S. Senate evenly split between the Republican and Democratic caucuses\u2014something that&#8217;s only happened three other times\u2014two political science scholars at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences were inspired to study one of those periods. Their research regarding the Senate during the 1953\u201354 session of Congress, published in the American Political Science Review, examines a period of time when nine senators died and one resigned, flipping party control twice.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-senate-history-affects-legislative-policymaking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Control of the US Senate: What does history tell us about how much it affects legislative policymaking?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the U.S. Senate evenly split between the Republican and Democratic caucuses\u2014something that&#8217;s only happened three other times\u2014two political science scholars at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}