Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock

by Sarah A. Binder

Book Overview

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Gridlock is not a modern legislative condition. Although the term is said to have entered the American political lexicon after the 1980 elections, Alexander Hamilton complained about it more than two hundred years ago. In many ways, stalemate seems endemic to American politics. Constitutional skeptics even suggest that the framers intentionally designed the Constitution to guarantee gridlock. In Stalemate, Sarah Binder examines the causes and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815709110
• ISBN13: 9780815709114
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"