Beyond ideology : politics, principles, and partisanship in the U.S. Senate /
Lee, Frances E.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
United States. Congress. Senate.
Political parties