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Beyond ideology : politics, principles, and partisanship in the U.S. Senate
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Frances E. Lee
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226470740, 0226470741, 9780226470764, 0226470768
- OCLC
- ocn314381639
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-244) and index.
- 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