| The Other Side of Gridlock: Policy Stability and Supermajoritarianism in U.S. Lawmaking Contributor(s): Saeki, Manabu (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438430507 ISBN-13: 9781438430508 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - Legislative Branch - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 328.73 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.52 lbs) 159 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing upon a wealth of congressional data from 1953 through 2006, this study offers new insights into the politics of gridlock, one of the more contentious issues in Washington, D.C., since the early 1990s. Previous analyses have focused on either the volume of enacted law or the ratio of enacted legislation to the entire legislative agenda. Manabu Saeki departs substantially from these approaches by looking at the policy content of enacted laws while defining gridlock as an inability to change policy. He asks, why has there been so much policy stability? Saeki looks closely at party control, as do previous studies, but he also examines the ideological configuration of the bipartisan supermajority. |