Impeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill
Language: English
Published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2004
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xiii, 234 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. One of the Studies in Government & Public Policy series. Why did congressional Republicans obsessively pursue the impeachment of President Bill Clinton when the 1998 midterm elections and public opinion polls suggested that the majority of Americans opposed it? Some claimed indignation over perjury, others outrage over immorality. But as Nicol Rae and Colton Campbell show, the driving force behind the impeachment was nothingless than the intensifying partisanship of American politics. "Impeaching Clinton offers a fascinating case study of how the American political system operated during the 1990s and of the critical factors underpinning the political process. It particularly examines the congressional aspect of the drama to show that the Lewinsky affair was simply a trigger--that the context for impeachment had been set over the course of two decades of partisan warfare. Drawing on new interviews with six of the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee in 1998, Rae and Campbell reexamine why the House Republicans acted in defiance of electoral rationality on the impeachment issue, demonstrating that they took their cues from the voting party faithful rather than from the nation's centrist citizenry. The authors unravel the web of partisan politics to reveal how the pattern of events was determined, from the decision to open an impeachment inquiry to the eventual acquittal of the president. Rae and Campbell also look a the Judiciary Committee proceedings from the perspective of the Democratic minority, who helped shape media coverage and public opinion and the eventual Senate outcome. They show how the Senate was able to bring closure to this highly polarizing proceeding. Overdramatized by the media, the Clinton impeachment process wasnevertheless the most extreme manifestation of partisan warfare in our time. The authors special contribution here is to greatly expand our understanding not only of a particular constitutional crisis but also of a dynamic that st. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Some highlighting and underlining noted. Cover has some wear and soiling.…
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- Title
- Impeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill
- Author
- Rae, Nicol C., and Campbell, Colton C.
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Publication year
- 2004
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0700612823
- ISBN 13
- 9780700612826
- Edition
- First pbk. printing [stated].
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- Impeachment
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"Considers the politics behind one of the most important events in the domestic political history of the United States in the past century. . . . Highly recommended to any scholar interested in American political institutions. . . . Highly readable for students."Perspectives on Political Science
Rae and Campbell demonstrate convincingly that the impeachment of Bill Clinton was largely a consequence of political forces that gathered in Congress during the 1980s and 1990s. Their book is both a trenchant analysis of the impeachment and a strikingly accurate portrayal of the partisan and ideologically polarized state of American politics at the turn of the century.Thomas E. Mann, coeditor of Congress, the Press, and the Public
Rae and Campbell cut to the heart of this remarkable episode in American history. Their treatment is thorough and authoritative. And even though we all know the outcome, it was fun to read.Nelson W. Polsby, author of Congress and the Presidency
An important and compelling book.Walter J. Oleszek, author of Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process
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