Polarized Politics

This timely new collection of original essays, written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, addresses how the recent rise in partisan politics has affected congressional-presidential relations. In each of the chapters, contributors present original research that enhances students' understanding of how partisanship affects politics at the national level.

Offering insight into the interaction of the presidential and congressional branches from their respective vantage points, the essays in this volume cover a range of subjects including presidential agenda-setting in Congress, lawmaking in a partisan era, and competition between presidents and their parties over defining party identities in the public arena.

Figures and Tables

ix

Preface

xiii

Contributors

xvii

Congress and the President in a Partisan Era

1

(8)

Richard Fleisher

Jon R. Bond

Party Polarization in National Politics: The Electoral Connection

9

(22)

Gary C. Jacobson

The Consequences of Party Organization in the House: The Role of the Majority and Minority Parties in Conditional Party Government

31

(42)

John H. Aldrich

David W. Rohde

Congress, the President, and Party Competition via Network News

73

(23)

Tim Groeling

Samuel Kernell

Continuity and Change in Civility in the House

96

(13)

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Erika Falk

Presidential Agenda Setting in Congress

109

(25)

George C. Edwards III

Andrew Barrett

Hostile Partners: The President, Congress, and Lawmaking in the Partisan 1990s

134

(20)

Barbara Sinclair

Partisanship and the President's Quest for Votes on the Floor of Congress

154

(32)

Richard Fleisher

Jon R. Bond

Polarized Politics: Does It Matter?

186

(15)

Richard Fleisher

Jon R. Bond

References

201

(14)

Index

215

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