Board #20 - From Debate to Deadlock: Reframing the Filibuster’s Role in American Politics

• In Event: 73-307 - Poster Session: Legislatures and Legislative Behavior

Brief Overview

This study redefines the filibuster as a technology of political time, showing how senators use delay and endurance-not debate—to wield power, transforming time itself into a strategic tool of legislative control.

Author

• Fiza Khwaja, Georgia Gwinnett College