James Madison Rules America

<I>James Madison Rules America</I> examines congressional party legislative and electoral strategy in the context of our constitutional separation of powers. William Connelly argues that partisanship polarization and the permanent campaign are an inevitable part of congressional politics. <I>James Madison Rules America</I> is as topical as current debates over partisan polarization and the permanent campaign while being grounded in two enduring and important schools of thought within political science: pluralism and party government.