Adversarial Partisanship

This video originally aired on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

About This Video

Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein talked about their new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism. In the book they examined the adversarial partisan behavior of Washington, D.C. policy makers that leaves a majority-rule system dysfunctional. They placed much of the blame on Republican Party ideological extremism.

Keywords

History & Society, Washington Politics, Partisanship

Related Subjects/Topics

  • Political Parties
  • Campaigns and Elections
  • U.S. History

Speakers

  • Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Mann
  • American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Norm Ornstein
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