Governing in a Polarized Age (eBook, ePUB)

Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America
Redaktion: Gerber, Alan S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many political observers have expressed doubts as to whether America's leaders are up to the task of addressing major policy challenges. Yet much of the critical commentary lacks grounding in the systematic analysis of the core institutions of the American political system including elections, representation, and the law-making process. Governing in a Polarized Age brings together more than a dozen leading scholars to provide an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance. Drawing upon the seminal work of David Mayhew as a point of departure, these essays explore the dynamics of incumbency advantage in today's polarized Congress, asking whether the focus on individual re-election that was the hallmark of Mayhew's ground-breaking book, Congress: The Electoral Connection, remains useful for understanding today's Congress. The essays link the study of elections with close analysis of changes in party organization and with a series of systematic assessments of the quality of legislative performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316683255
• Artikelnr.: 52994131

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Political Representation and Democratic
Accountability: 2. The electoral connection, age 40 R. Douglas Arnold; 3.
The electoral connection, then and now Gary Jacobson; 4. The congressional
incumbency advantage over sixty years: measurement, trends, and
implications Robert S. Erikson; 5. A baseline for incumbency effects
Christopher Achen; Part II. Continuity and Change in Party Organizations:
6. Legislative parties in an era of alternating majorities Frances E. Lee;
7. Parties within parties: parties, factions, and coordinated politics,
1900-80 John Mark Hansen, Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder, Jr; 8. Where
measures meet history: party polarization during the New Deal and Fair Deal
Joshua D. Clinton, Ira Katznelson and John S. Lapinski; Part III.
Partisanship and Governmental Performance: 9. Polarized we govern? Sarah
Binder; 10. What has Congress done? Stephen Ansolabehere, Maxwell Palmer
and Benjamin Schneer; 11. Can Congress do policy analysis? The politics of
problem solving on Capitol Hill Eric M. Patashnik and Justin Peck; 12.
Studying contingency systematically Katherine Levine Einstein and Jennifer
Hochschild; 13. Majoritarianism, majoritarian tension, and the Reed
revolution Keith Krehbiel; Part IV. Conclusions: 14. Intensified
partisanship in congress: institutional effects David E. Price; 15. The
origins of Congress: The Electoral Connection David R. Mayhew.