Campus Units
Political Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1990
Journal or Book Title
The Journal of Politics
Volume
52
Issue
04
First Page
1077
Last Page
1100
DOI
10.2307/2131683
Abstract
The question we posed at the outset is whether bipartisanship or politics hold as appropriate explanations of congressional-executive relations in the historical periods to which they are typically applied, namely, the pre-Vietnam period in the case of bipartisanship, and the post-Vietnam period in the case of politics. The evidence suggests, first, that the bipartisan perspective applies best to the first two decades of the postwar era, but that it has not been replaced by the political perspective, in which partisanship and ideology are central concepts. Instead, the political perspective applies throughout the postwar era, even though it may now appear more pronounced because its most visible aspects are no longer overlaid by what is typically thought to be the moderating influence of bipartisanship. In this sense the two viewpoints are appropriately seen not as competing but as distinctly separate perspectives on the politics of policy-making that coexist simultaneously.
Copyright Owner
Southern Political Science Association
Copyright Date
1990
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
McCormick, James M. and Wittkopf, Eugene R., "Bipartisanship, Partisanship, and Ideology in Congressional-Executive Foreign Policy Relations, 1947–1988" (1990). Political Science Publications. 30.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/pols_pubs/30
Comments
This is an article from The Journal of Politics 52 (1990): 1077, doi:10.2307/2131683. Posted with permission.