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The limits of party : Congress and lawmaking in a polarized era / James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curry, James M., author.
- Lee, Frances E., author.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in American politics.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago studies in American politics
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress.
- United States.
- Legislative power--United States.
- Legislative power.
- Political parties--United States.
- Political parties.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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 wisdom. In 'The Limits of Party', James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee challenge this conventional wisdom. By constructing legislative histories of congressional majority parties' attempts to enact their policy agendas in every congress since the 1980s and by drawing on interviews with Washington insiders, the authors analyze the successes and failures of congressional parties to enact their legislative agendas.
- Contents:
- One / Majority Party Capacity in a Polarized Era
- Two / The Persistence of Bipartisan Lawmaking
- Three / Why Do Majority Parties Fail?
- Four / How Do Majority Parties Succeed?
- Five / Bipartisanship and the Decline of Regular Order
- Six / Credit Claiming and Blaming: How Members React to Legislation in Public
- Seven / Constancy and Continuities
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A. Majority Party Agenda Priorities
- Appendix B. Additional Quantitative Analyses
- Appendix C. Notes on the Interviews
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 022671649X
- 9780226716497
- OCLC:
- 1183955180
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