Beyond ideology
Subtitle: politics, principles, and partisanship in the U.S. Senate
By: Frances E. Lee.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226470740; 9780226470764
Subjects: United States. -- Congress. -- Senate; Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ties that bind: untangling the roots of congressional partisanship; title: Before 'ideology': a conceptual history; title: Sources of party conflict: ideological disagreement and teamsmanship; title: Dividers, not uniters: presidential leadership and legislative partisanship; title: The partisan politics of good government; title: Procedural partisanship: intra-party dealmaking and partisan bloc voting; title: Agreeing to disagree, or disagreeing to agree: agenda content and rising; title: Partisanship; title: Beyond ideology: returning to politics; title: Appendix A. Coding the presidential agenda status of roll-call votes; title: Appendix B. Does party polarization on an issue topic increase the likelihood that presidents will include the issue on their agenda?; title: Appendix C. Estimates of multinomial logit model of partisan voting patterns on Senate roll-call votes, 1981-2004.