Beyond ideology : politics, principles, and partisanship in the U.S. Senate / Frances E. Lee.
Argues that partisan battles that threaten the congressional agenda are rooted in competition for power and not over disagreements over the role of the government.
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Ties that bind: untangling the roots of congressional partisanship
- Before 'ideology': a conceptual history
- Sources of party conflict: ideological disagreement and teamsmanship
- Dividers, not uniters: presidential leadership and legislative partisanship
- The partisan politics of good government
- Procedural partisanship: intra-party dealmaking and partisan bloc voting
- Agreeing to disagree, or disagreeing to agree: agenda content and rising partisanship
- Beyond ideology: returning to politics
- Appendix A. Coding the presidential agenda status of roll-call votes
- Appendix B. Does party polarization on an issue topic increase the likelihood that presidents will include the issue on their agenda?
- Appendix C. Estimates of multinomial logit model of partisan voting patterns on Senate roll-call votes, 1981-2004.