{"product_id":"governing-in-a-polarized-age-elections-parties-and-political-representation-in-america-hardback-9781107095090","title":"Governing in a Polarized Age; Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America (Hardback) 9781107095090","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGoverning in a Polarized Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eElections, Parties, and Political Representation in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume provides an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance in contemporary American politics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlan S. Gerber (Edited by), Eric Schickler (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107095090, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 February 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e406 pages, 62 b\/w illus.  47 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Overall, Governing in a Polarized Age is focused on representation and the impact of a member's credit claiming, advertising, and position taking on Congress (specifically) and the executive branch (generally).' Jacob R. Straus, Congress and the Presidency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMany political observers have expressed doubts as to whether America's leaders are up to the task of addressing major policy challenges. Yet much of the critical commentary lacks grounding in the systematic analysis of the core institutions of the American political system including elections, representation, and the law-making process. Governing in a Polarized Age brings together more than a dozen leading scholars to provide an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance. Drawing upon the seminal work of David Mayhew as a point of departure, these essays explore the dynamics of incumbency advantage in today's polarized Congress, asking whether the focus on individual re-election that was the hallmark of Mayhew's ground-breaking book, Congress: The Electoral Connection, remains useful for understanding today's Congress. The essays link the study of elections with close analysis of changes in party organization and with a series of systematic assessments of the quality of legislative performance.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Political Representation and Democratic Accountability: 2. The electoral connection, age 40 R. Douglas Arnold\u003cbr\u003e 3. The electoral connection, then and now Gary Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e 4. The congressional incumbency advantage over sixty years: measurement, trends, and implications Robert S. Erikson\u003cbr\u003e 5. A baseline for incumbency effects Christopher Achen\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Continuity and Change in Party Organizations: 6. Legislative parties in an era of alternating majorities Frances E. Lee\u003cbr\u003e 7. Parties within parties: parties, factions, and coordinated politics, 1900–80 John Mark Hansen, Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder, Jr\u003cbr\u003e 8. Where measures meet history: party polarization during the New Deal and Fair Deal Joshua D. Clinton, Ira Katznelson and John S. Lapinski\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Partisanship and Governmental Performance: 9. Polarized we govern? Sarah Binder\u003cbr\u003e 10. What has Congress done? Stephen Ansolabehere, Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer\u003cbr\u003e 11. Can Congress do policy analysis? The politics of problem solving on Capitol Hill Eric M. Patashnik and Justin Peck\u003cbr\u003e 12. Studying contingency systematically Katherine Levine Einstein and Jennifer Hochschild\u003cbr\u003e 13. Majoritarianism, majoritarian tension, and the Reed revolution Keith Krehbiel\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Conclusions: 14. Intensified partisanship in congress: institutional effects David E. Price\u003cbr\u003e 15. The origins of Congress: The Electoral Connection David R. 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