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The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era: Chicago Studies in American Politics

Autor James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2021
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.

Their conclusions will surprise many congressional observers: Even in our time of intense party polarization, bipartisanship remains the key to legislative success on Capitol Hill. Congressional majority parties today are neither more nor less successful at enacting their partisan agendas. They are not more likely to ram though partisan laws or become mired in stalemate. Rather, the parties continue to build bipartisan coalitions for their legislative priorities and typically compromise on their original visions for legislation in order to achieve legislative success.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226716213
ISBN-10: 022671621X
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 46 line drawings, 15 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Studies in American Politics


Notă biografică

James M. Curry is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah. He is the author of Legislating in the Dark. Frances E. Lee is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. Her previous books include Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign and Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate.
 

Cuprins

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
References
Index
 

Recenzii

The Limits of Party a powerful and authoritative work that should invest our understandings and our classrooms. The book is rich in data and argument. The authors ask: How much has congressional lawmaking changed during recent decades? The answer: Not as much as we might think! There is an awful lot of continuity in our cumbersome separation-of-powers system.”

“In this provocative and cogently-argued book, Curry and Lee demonstrate convincingly the very real limits of congressional majority party power. While contemporary congressional politics may be marked by highly partisan and centralized processes, the factors that govern lawmaking and legislative outcomes have remain largely unchanged over the past half-century. The authors show that laws are generally enacted with broad bipartisan support, and majority parties still face struggles to coordinate internally, even though they face fewer ideological divides than in the past. This important book adds nuance to the literature on party influence and serves as a meaningful corrective to arguments that polarization has changed everything about Congress. It will be deservedly widely read and discussed.”

"I highly recommend this book not only to congressional scholars, but to those who work in and around the Congress. It offers a refreshingly new and counterintuitive perspective on what is really going on under that dome on the Hill, and why."