Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Chapter 1. Ties That Bind: Untangling the Roots of Congressional Partisanship 1
7. Chapter 2. Before “Ideology”: A Conceptual History 24
8. Chapter 3. Sources of Party Conflict: Ideological Disagreement and Teamsmanship 47
9. Chapter 4. Dividers, Not Uniters: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Partisanship 74
10. Chapter 5. The Partisan Politics of Good Government 103
11. Chapter 6. Procedural Partisanship: Intra-Party Dealmaking and Partisan Bloc Voting 131
12. Chapter 7. Agreeing to Disagree, or Disagreeing to Agree: Agenda Content and Rising Partisanship 162
13. Chapter 8. Beyond Ideology: Returning to Politics 181
14. Appendix a. Coding the Presidential Agenda Status of Roll-Call Votes 195
15. Appendix b. Does Party Polarization on an Issue Topic Increase the Likelihood that Presidents Will Include the Issue on Their Agenda? 211
16. Appendix c. Estimates of Multinomial Logit Model of Partisan Voting Patterns on Senate Roll-Call Votes, 1981–2004 213
17. Notes 215
18. References 231
19. Index 245