Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era - Hardcover

9781568024943: Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568024940 ISBN 13: 9781568024943

Publisher: Cq Pr, 2000

This timely new collection of original essays, written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, addresses how the recent rise in partisan politics has affected congressional-presidential relations. In each of the chapters, contributors present original research that enhances students' understanding of how partisanship affects politics at the national level.

Offering insight into the interaction of the presidential and congressional branches from their respective vantage points, the essays in this volume cover a range of subjects including presidential agenda-setting in Congress, lawmaking in a partisan era, and competition between presidents and their parties over defining party identities in the public arena.

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About the Author

Jon R. Bond (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He has published articles on presidential-congressional relations, congressional elections, and public policy in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Polity. He is coauthor with Richard Fleisher of The President in the Legislative Arena. He was an American Political Science Assocation Congressional Fellow and has served as coeditor of the

Journal of Politics and on the executive councils of the Midwest Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha. He is a member of the Publications Committee of the American Political Science Association.

Richard Fleisher (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. He has published articles on presidential-congressional relations, congressional elections, constituency influence on roll call voting, and electoral alignments in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, and Political Science Quarterly. He is coauthor of The President in the Legislative Arena. He is currently serving as chair of his department and continuing his research on congressional decision making.