Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided
governments of the last decades have led to legislative gridlock.
Not so, argues Keith Krehbiel, who advances the provocative theory
that divided government actually has little distinctive effect on
legislative productivity. Raw political conflict is in fact the
order of the day, occurring even when the same party controls the
legislative and executive branches. Meticulously researched and
anchored in real politics, Krehbiel's study shows that the pivotal
vote on a piece of legislation is not the one that gives a bill a
simple majority, but the one that allows its supporters to override
a possible presidential veto or to halt a filibuster.
Krehbiel's tractable yet comprehensive theory demonstrates how a
specific and identifiable decision maker determines final policy
choices and how politicians who are trying to enact new policies
focus their legislative efforts on these pivotal lawmakers. This
theory of pivots also explains why, when bills are passed, winning
coalitions usually are bipartisan and supermajority sized. Offering
an incisive account of how gridlock is overcome and showing that
political parties are less important in legislative-executive
politics than previously thought, Pivotal Politics remakes our
understanding of the American legislative process.
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