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Partisan Balance : Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System /

From the publisher. With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayhew, David R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The electoral bases
  • President and Congress
  • House and Senate I
  • House and Senate II
  • Reform
  • Appendix : sources for Presidential proposals.