Divided Government and the Rise of Social Regulation.
Political scientists have debated the causes of divided government since the Reagan administration. In addition, a handful of scholars have also pondered the possible consequences of divided party rule for politics and policy. Still, one serious oversight in the divided government literature is the...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 611 - 627 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2001
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