Abstract
This study analyzes House roll-call votes from 1957-1990 in order to assess the effects of divided government on support for the president's preferred legislation once it reaches the House floor. By disaggregating analysis into specific policy areas, the results demonstrate that the impact of divided government on presidential support varies systematically across policy areas by the degree to which the policy cross-cuts society. Broadly cross-cutting policy areas are more prone to partisan conflict and, hence, to the effects of divided government, while more sector-specific policy areas generate conflict along bipartisan and institutional lines as well as along partisan ones. Support scores on sector specific policies, as a result, are not significantly prone to the influence of divided government. The results suggest caution in drawing conclusions that imply a uniform impact of divided government or a single remedy to reform our system of government.
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