Cozy Politics : : Political Parties, Campaign Finance, and Compromised Governance / / Peter Kobrak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kobrak, Peter ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART 1 THE CHANGING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT --; 1 Three-Fifths of the United States --; 2 Why Parties Matter --; 3 The Once-and-Future Party --; PART 2 THE ESCALATION OF COZY POLITICS --; 4 Uncontrollable Campaign Costs and Their Consequences --; 5 Pathways to Congressional Decisionmaking --; PART 3 FROM COMPROMISED GOVERNANCE TO DEMOCRATIC BALANCE --; 6 Agency Compromise and Privatization --; 7 Reinventing Political Parties --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685854409; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685854409
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Kobrak.

Kobrak explores the insidious system that encourages elected officials to cooperate with their supposed opponents rather than with their own constituents.