Why has voting in Congress become so partisan? Does partisanship in voting indicate that there is no common ground left between American parties? Laurel Harbridge's findings in Is Bipartisanship Dead? shed light on whether partisan conflict is insurmountable, underscore how political parties manufacture partisan conflict, and speak to questions of representation and governance.
About the Author
Laurel Harbridge is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Her teaching and research focus on legislative politics, partisan conflict, and the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics. She is a former Hoover Institution national fellow. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Research.