Party Wars is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf
now separating the two major parties developed and how today's
fierce partisan competition affects the political process and
national policy.Barbara Sinclair traces the current ideological
divide to changes in the Republican party in the 1970s and 1980s,
including the rise of neoconservativism and the Religious Right.
Because of these historical developments, Democratic and Republican
voters today differ substantially in what they consider good public
policy, and so do the politicians they elect. Polarization has
produced institutional consequences in the House of Representatives
and in the Senate - witness the majority party's threat in
2004-2005 to use the ""nuclear option"" of abolishing the
filibuster. The president's strategies for dealing with Congress
have also been affected, raising the price of compromise with the
opposing party and allowing a Republican president to govern
largely from the ideological right. Other players in the national
policy community - interest groups, think tanks, and the media -
have also joined one or the other partisan ""team."" Party Wars
puts all the parts together to provide the first government-wide
survey of the impact of polarization on national politics. Sinclair
pinpoints weaknesses in the highly polarized system and offers
several remedies.
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