Beyond Ideology Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate

Name: Beyond Ideology Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate
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ISBN: 9780226470764

ISBN-10: 0226470768

ISBN-13: 9780226470764

Edition: 2009

Authors: Frances E. Lee

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The congressional agenda, Frances Lee contends, includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. What explains this discord?Beyond Ideologyargues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than disagreement over the rightful role of government. The first book to systematically distinguish Senate disputes centering on ideological questions from the large proportion of them that do not, this volume foregrounds the role of power struggle in partisan conflict. Presidential leadership, for example, inherently polarizes legislators who can…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Acknowledgments



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



Coding the Presidential Agenda Status of Roll-Call Votes



Does Party Polarization on an Issue Topic Increase the Likelihood that Presidents Will Include the Issue on Their Agenda?



Estimates of Multinomial Logic Model of Partisan Voting Patterns on Senate Roll-Call Votes, 1981-2004


Notes


References


Index