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Cozy Politics : Political Parties, Campaign Finance, and Compromised Governance / Peter Kobrak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (273 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685854409
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 THE CHANGING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT -- 1 Three-Fifths of the United States -- 2 Why Parties Matter -- 3 The Once-and-Future Party -- PART 2 THE ESCALATION OF COZY POLITICS -- 4 Uncontrollable Campaign Costs and Their Consequences -- 5 Pathways to Congressional Decisionmaking -- PART 3 FROM COMPROMISED GOVERNANCE TO DEMOCRATIC BALANCE -- 6 Agency Compromise and Privatization -- 7 Reinventing Political Parties -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Kobrak explores the insidious system that encourages elected officials to cooperate with their supposed opponents rather than with their own constituents.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685854409

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 THE CHANGING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT -- 1 Three-Fifths of the United States -- 2 Why Parties Matter -- 3 The Once-and-Future Party -- PART 2 THE ESCALATION OF COZY POLITICS -- 4 Uncontrollable Campaign Costs and Their Consequences -- 5 Pathways to Congressional Decisionmaking -- PART 3 FROM COMPROMISED GOVERNANCE TO DEMOCRATIC BALANCE -- 6 Agency Compromise and Privatization -- 7 Reinventing Political Parties -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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Kobrak explores the insidious system that encourages elected officials to cooperate with their supposed opponents rather than with their own constituents.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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