Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures, and boxes
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- PARTISAN POLITICS, DIVIDED GOVERNMENT, AND THE ECONOMY
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Models of policy divergence
- 3 A theory of institutional balancing
- 4 The midterm cycle
- 5 Diversity, persistence, and mobility
- 6 Incumbency and moderation
- 7 Partisan business cycles
- 8 The president, Congress, and the economy
- 9 Economic growth and national elections in the United States: 1915–1988
- 10 Partisan economic policy and divided government in parliamentary democracies
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures, and boxes
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- PARTISAN POLITICS, DIVIDED GOVERNMENT, AND THE ECONOMY
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Models of policy divergence
- 3 A theory of institutional balancing
- 4 The midterm cycle
- 5 Diversity, persistence, and mobility
- 6 Incumbency and moderation
- 7 Partisan business cycles
- 8 The president, Congress, and the economy
- 9 Economic growth and national elections in the United States: 1915–1988
- 10 Partisan economic policy and divided government in parliamentary democracies
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995