How Partisan Conflict is Better and Worse than Legislative Compromise

摘要: Aggregate patterns of Congressional evaluations show approval declining as partisan conflict increases. At the same time, citizens favor partisanship by members their own party and outputs that reflect victories. We seek to resolve lingering puzzle from these two findings emphasizing role gridlock. Legislative approaches policymaking may not only cooperation or between sides, but when there is over policy, outcome can be a win for one legislative develop number expectations about how different outcomes will affect public Congress test them with multi-wave survey experiment. Consistent expectations, results indicate resulting in victory one’s boosts relative compromise, gridlock substantially damages approval. reflects strategy rather than ideological disagreements particularly nefarious. Evidence also suggests citizens’ responses vary based on individual-level moderators, including strength partisanship, political knowledge, purity. Our provide rationale why institutional has declined risen, point leaders ought consider both sub-constituencies they are courting whether efforts focus goals likely end gridlock.