Strategic Party Government: Why Winning Trumps Ideology

by Matthew J. Lebo and Gregory Koger

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compelling reason that today's political leaders devote so much time to conveying their party's positions, even at the expense of basic government functions: Both parties want to win elections.
In Strategic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022642457X
• ISBN13: 9780226424576
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"