With the People's Consent explores Howard Baker's ability to lead the United States Senate at a time when it was divided by partisanship and ideology. This book features a quantitative analysis of Senate leadership through roll call analysis, an evaluation of the advantages and difficulties in roll call data, and a discussion of data used to evaluate Baker's leadership in the 95th to 98th Congress. With the People's Consent addresses how the current instability of the Senate could be improved by looking toward Baker's own success during a tumultuous time.

By Michael P. Bobic

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Howard Baker and Leadership in the United States Senate
Chapter 2: Defining Terms and Approaches to Analyzing Roll Calls
Chapter 3: Modeling Baker's Leadership in the Senate
Chapter 4: Howard Baker in the 95th Congress: Leading through Cooperation
Chapter 5: Howard Baker in the 96th Congress: Leading a Divided Senate
Chapter 6: Howard Baker as Majority Leader:Leadership through Coordination
Conclusions
Appendix A:The Clustering Method9
Appendix B: Explaining Poor Performance of the NOMINATE Measure
Bibliography
Index