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  • 1 - Rejecting Compromise, Getting Gridlock

  • Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Daniel M. Butler, University of California, San Diego, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    Rejecting Compromise
    Published online:
    28 January 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2020, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    This chapter illustrates how legislators sometimes reject compromise proposals with an example of legislation on public lands management in Utah. Despite broad support for the bill, which was viewed as a compromise solution to increase protection for the San Rafael Swell area, it had detractors who felt it did not go far enough. The failure of the San Rafael Swell National Conservation Area legislation shows that legislators sometimes reject half-loaf compromises in pursuit of getting everything they want. This book takes a problem-oriented approach by examining why legislators reject half-loaf compromises and what can be done about it. This chapter summarizes the varied methods we used to understand the rejection of compromise, our findings that legislators fear punishment for compromise from subsets of the primary election who oppose particular compromises, and our contributions to solving this problem