How party polarization affects governance

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 18, Issue , 2015, Pages 261-282

  Lee, Frances E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Public policy making; Us congress; Us presidency; Us supreme court

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929409681     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-072012-113747     Document Type: Article

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