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The Limits of Party - Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Party - Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics
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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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