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Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873 / Lee J. Alston, Jeffery A. Jenkins, Tomas Nonnenmacher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alston, Lee J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11908.
- NBER working paper series no. w11908
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- We examine the politics of the "Salary Grab" of 1873, legislation that increased congressional salaries retroactively by 50 percent. A group of New England and Midwestern elites opposed the Salary Grab, along with congressional franking and patronage-based civil service appointments, as part of reform effort to reshape "who should govern Congress." Our analyses of congressional voting confirm the existence of this non-party elite coalition. While these elites lost many legislative battles in the short-run, their efforts kept reform on the legislative agenda throughout the late-nineteenth century and ultimately set the stage for the Progressive movement in the early-twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2005.
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