The Politics Of Divided Government

by Samuel Kernell and Gary Cox

Book Overview

Partisan conflict between the White House and Congress is now a dominant feature of national politics in the United States. What the Constitution sought to institute-a system of checks and balances-divided government has taken to extremes: institutional divisions so deep that national challenges like balancing the federal budget or effectively regulating the nation's savings and loans have become insurmountable. In original essays written especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367310554
• ISBN13: 9780367310554
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"