Productive Partisanship

Elizabeth Mitchell

doi:https://doi.org/10.53558/SWZP8801

Productive Partisanship

Authors

Elizabeth Mitchell Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.53558/SWZP8801

Keywords:

politics, U.S. Congress, political polarization, American political parties, Maine

Abstract

This article is an excerpt of a lecture given in a lecture series, “Politics Then and Now, in Maine and the Nation,” presented by the Muskie School and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine in the fall of 2013. Speakers were asked to address the issue of political polarization and dysfunction, comparing how politics was played in the past with