Is Bipartisanship Dead? - Policy Agreement and Agenda-Setting in the House of Representatives

Is Bipartisanship Dead? strives to shed light on whether partisan conflict is insurmountable, and to answer questions surrounding representation and governance.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A puzzle of declining bipartisanship; 3. Strategic partisan agenda setting: a theoretical framework; 4. Agenda setting and the decline of bipartisan cooperation; 5. Variation in strategic partisan agenda setting; 6. Strategic partisan agenda setting across policy areas; 7. District responsiveness and member-party relationships; 8. The past, present, and future of bipartisanship.

About the author

Laurel Harbridge is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Her teaching and research focus on legislative politics, partisan conflict, and the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics. She is a former Hoover Institution national fellow. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Research.

Summary

Why has voting in Congress become so partisan? Does partisanship in voting indicate that there is no common ground left between American parties? Laurel Harbridge's findings in Is Bipartisanship Dead? shed light on whether partisan conflict is insurmountable, underscore how political parties manufacture partisan conflict, and speak to questions of representation and governance.

Product details

• Authors: Laurel Harbridge, Laurel (Northwestern University Harbridge, Harbridge Laurel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107079953
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07995-3
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state