The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

by Frances E. Lee and James M. Curry

Book Overview

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate to compromise. Or, at least, that is the conventional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022671635X
• ISBN13: 9780226716350
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"