Product Description: This timely new collection of original essays, written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, addresses how the recent rise in partisan politics has affected congressional-presidential relations. In each of the chapters, contributors present original research that enhances students' understanding of how partisanship affects politics at the national level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years, the executive branch's ability to maneuver legislation through Congress has become the measure of presidential success or failure. Although the victor of legislative battles is often readily discernible, debate is growing over how such victories are achieved...read more