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2001
AbstractThe chapter begins with an analysis of the frequency and form of divided government in Poland, which has been the rule rather than the exception since the fall of communism. It then examines the causes, which are largely attributable to Poland's comparatively short experience of democratic politics, and arise from structural and institutional ...
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AbstractThe chapter begins with an analysis of the frequency and form of divided government in Poland, which has been the rule rather than the exception since the fall of communism. It then examines the causes, which are largely attributable to Poland's comparatively short experience of democratic politics, and arise from structural and institutional ...
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Unified Government, Divided Government, and Party Responsiveness
American Political Science Review, 1999Revisionist accounts conclude that divided and unified government do not differ significantly in the production of “important” public policy. I argue instead that when one theoretically reclaims the concerns about party responsiveness and institutional features of American politics that have animated party government scholars, unified government is ...
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Parties and Governance: Making Divided Government Work
2000Parties, as we have seen, are organizations playing a major role again today in the election of leaders — presidents, congresspersons, senators, and state and local officials. They are political action structures that mobilize money, support, and votes on behalf of their candidates for public offices.
Samuel J. Eldersveld, Hanes Walton
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2001
AbstractThis chapter serves as an introduction to the comparative study of divided government, and a framework for the case studies in the remainder of the book. Its first part examines the concept of divided government and identifies two ways in which the concept is understood.
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AbstractThis chapter serves as an introduction to the comparative study of divided government, and a framework for the case studies in the remainder of the book. Its first part examines the concept of divided government and identifies two ways in which the concept is understood.
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Coalition Governments, Divided Governments, and Electoral Theory
Governance, 1991For decades theorizing about party competition in two‐party and multiparty democracies has proceeded along separate tracks. The former has assumed an idealized world in which one party wins full control of a system's governing institutions in a first‐past‐the‐post election, while the latter posits a world in which elections conducted under a system of ...
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2001
AbstractMinority governments in Ireland have been common, relatively stable, and reasonably effective, and divided government has been less difficult to manage than in other countries.
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AbstractMinority governments in Ireland have been common, relatively stable, and reasonably effective, and divided government has been less difficult to manage than in other countries.
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Presidents, Polarization, and Divided Government
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2011This article tests two models of extremism versus moderation in presidential policy stances, a party activist theory and a congressional context theory. The party activist theory argues that, due to the electoral and nomination reforms of the mid‐1970s, party activists became increasingly important and powerful in their parties. As activists tend to be
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Issues, Coalitions, and Divided Government
Congress & the Presidency, 1995This study analyzes House roll-call votes from 1957-1990 in order to assess the effects of divided government on support for the president's preferred legislation once it reaches the House floor. By disaggregating analysis into specific policy areas, the results demonstrate that the impact of divided government on presidential support varies ...
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Divided Government in the States
PS: Political Science & Politics, 1991America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall. Committee on Political Parties of the American Political Science Association. 1950. "Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System," American Political Science Review 44, supplement. Fiorina, Morris. 1989. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment, 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Ginsberg,
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The United States: Divided Government and Divided Parties
1996Questions about the relations between a government and the party that supports it are unusual in the study of American politics. One reason is that the concepts involved, party and government, while central to the parliamentary model of party government characteristic of most western democracies, are foreign to the Madisonian model of liberal democracy
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