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Data Sources Data Sources
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Passage Votes Passage Votes
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Party Agenda Priorities Party Agenda Priorities
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Enacting Coalitions Enacting Coalitions
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Contemporary Efforts to Enact Partisan Agendas Contemporary Efforts to Enact Partisan Agendas
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First-Person Perspectives on Persistent Bipartisanship First-Person Perspectives on Persistent Bipartisanship
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Bipartisanship as a Condition for Success Bipartisanship as a Condition for Success
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Minority Party Responses to Bipartisan Outreach Minority Party Responses to Bipartisan Outreach
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Majority Party Disunity as a Driver of Bipartisanship Majority Party Disunity as a Driver of Bipartisanship
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Party Polarization as a Driver of Bipartisanship Party Polarization as a Driver of Bipartisanship
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Lawmaking as a Process of Bipartisan Accommodation Lawmaking as a Process of Bipartisan Accommodation
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Two The Persistence of Bipartisan Lawmaking
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Published:October 2020
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Abstract
This chapter offers a top line answer to two questions about the majority party’s lawmaking capacity in the contemporary Congress: (1) Do majority parties in today’s party-polarized Congress pass laws on a partisan basis more often than in the past? (2) Are today’s stronger congressional parties more effective at enacting their agenda priorities? The answer to both questions is, no. Data on all laws enacted from 1973-2018 show that contemporary congresses do not enact a larger share of laws on party-line votes. Data on congressional majority party agenda priorities from 1985-2018 similarly show that more recent majorities are no more effective in accomplishing their legislative goals than the majority parties of the 1980s. Interviews with Washington insiders shed light on the persistence of bipartisanship in contemporary lawmaking, testifying to the extreme difficulties of one party lawmaking in the U.S. political system.
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