{"id":1093,"date":"2021-02-19T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2024-06-09T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T14:44:47","slug":"the-limits-of-party-and-prospects-for-the-117th-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2021\/02\/19\/the-limits-of-party-and-prospects-for-the-117th-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Party, and Prospects for the 117th Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Frances E. Lee, Ph.D. – Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday February 19, 2021
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nOnline Zoom Meeting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Greetings, and I hope you and yours are healthy and safe and able to see some daylight at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still in the tunnel, though, and therefore the \u201cFriday Lunch\u201d continues in its fourth decade as\u00a0“virtual” Zoom meetings<\/strong>. I miss getting together in person and sharing goodies and side conversations. But so far, mainly because of excellent speakers, we\u2019ve had good presentations and discussions. This week should be a highlight, as we take advantage of Zoom to hear from and talk with our\u00a0eminent former colleague, Frances Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Frances is simply one of the leading scholars of Congress in particular and American politics more generally, and her research continues to be groundbreaking. In\u00a0The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago, 2020), she and her coauthor James M. Curry have mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom that strong, homogeneous and polarized parties mean that legislation now largely consists of one party \u201crolling\u201d the other, with little place for bipartisan agreement. They do not argue that partisans are happy to agree with each other, by any means. But they provide good evidence that the parties usually cannot avoid finding a way to deal with each other, if they want to pass legislation at all. This is partly because the structural barriers of the Madisonian design \u2013 especially the separate House and Senate \u2013 remain serious obstacles to \u201cparty government.\u201d It is partly because of the Senate filibuster. And it is partly because, with the majority party usually having only a narrow advantage over the minority in either the House or Senate, the fact that the majority party is a lot more united than it was in the past rarely means it is united enough to legislate alone.<\/p>\n

How then does legislation get passed (or not) in the \u201cpolarized\u201d Congress? What can party leaders do? And therefore, what should we expect, or at least look for, as the extremely narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate now try to address what they view as a wide range of pressing needs? If you\u2019re curious about these questions, nobody in the country could give us better insights into the legislative future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Signing In<\/h3>\n

This semester’s discussions will begin at 12:30 p.m., the usual time. The meeting will be set up as from Noon to 2:00 p.m., so people are not all signing in at the same time and to allow for the discussion to run a bit long.\u00a0Each week we will send out this newsletter with information about the topic. It will also include a link to register (for free) for the discussion.<\/strong>\u00a0Every Monday the same information will be posted on our website:<\/span>\u00a0fridaylunch.case.edu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you register, you will automatically receive from the Zoom system the link to join the meeting. This week’s link for registration is:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cwru.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJEqdOitrDopHtyCfKsOwyDQyKUy77Us-el2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.<\/p>\n

Please e-mail<\/span>\u00a0padg@case.edu<\/span><\/a>\u00a0if you have questions about how the Zoom version of the Friday Lunch will work or any other suggestions. Or call at 216 368-2426 and we’ll try to get back to you. We are very pleased to be partnering this semester with the<\/span>\u00a0Siegal Lifelong Learning Program<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to share information about the discussions.<\/p>\n

Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,<\/p>\n

Joe White
\nLuxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Our Guest<\/span><\/h3>\n

Frances E. Lee<\/strong>\u00a0is jointly appointed in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs where she is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n

Lee has broad interests in American politics, with a special focus on congressional politics, national policymaking, party politics, and representation. She is author of\u00a0Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign<\/em>\u00a0(2016) and\u00a0Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate<\/em>\u00a0(2009). She is also coauthor of\u00a0The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era<\/em>\u00a0(2020),\u00a0Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation<\/em>\u00a0(1999) and a textbook,\u00a0Congress and Its Members<\/em>\u00a0(Sage \/ CQ Press). Her research has appeared in the\u00a0American Political Science Review<\/em>,\u00a0American Journal of Political Science<\/em>,\u00a0Perspectives on Politics<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Politics<\/em>,\u00a0Legislative Studies Quarterly<\/em>, and other outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 26: Brexit Happened: Now What?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Elliot Posner, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n

March 5: Effects of the Pandemic on Children\u2019s Resilience and Vulnerability.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Sandra Russ, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Distinguished University Professor and Louis D. Beaumont University Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences.<\/p>\n

March 12: Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Steven P. Feldman, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus in Business Ethics.<\/p>\n

March 19: What\u2019s the Problem With Big Tech?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Anat Alon-Beck, J.D.<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Law.<\/p>\n

March 26: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 2: Student Debt: What Are the Problems? For Whom? And What Could Be Done?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Richard Kazis<\/strong>, Senior Consultant, MDRC, Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, and Board Chair of The Institute for College Access and Services.<\/p>\n

April 9: Healthcare, Public Health, and Population Health.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Scott Frank, MD<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Director of Public Health Initiatives, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

April 16: Dropping the Pilot? Assessing Angela Merkel\u2019s Chancellorship.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Kenneth F. Ledford, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Chair, Department of History.<\/p>\n

April 23: Depression\u2019s Past and Future.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Theodore J. Castele Professor of History.<\/p>\n

April 30: The Republican Party and Demographic Change.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Girma Parris, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n

May 7: Defending Disability Insurance.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Kathy Ruffing<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Center for Policy Studies
\nPublic Affairs Discussion Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Limits of Party, and Prospects for the 117th Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frances E. Lee, Ph.D. – Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday February 19, 2021
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nOnline Zoom Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Greetings, and I hope you and yours are healthy and safe and able to see some daylight at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still in the tunnel, though, and therefore the \u201cFriday Lunch\u201d continues in its fourth decade as\u00a0“virtual”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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