Publications

2025 In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us Frances E. Lee · Princeton University Press · Scholar only 58 2024 High Stakes Negotiation: Reaching Agreement on Pandemic Aid in 2020 Frances E. Lee · Disruption? 2 2024 On the Congress Beat: How the Structure of News Shapes Coverage of Congressional Action Frances E. Lee · Political Science Quarterly · Scholar only 9 2023 Coalition Leadership in the Polarized Congress Frances E. Lee · Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking — 2023 Political parties and loser’s consent in American politics Frances E. Lee · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · Scholar only 12 2023 Populism, Democracy, and the post‐2020 Republican Party in Congress Frances E. Lee · Presidential Studies Quarterly 9 2023 Weighing Petitioning in the Balance Frances E. Lee · Social Science History 0 2022 One Obstacle Among Many: The Filibuster and Majority Party Agendas Frances E. Lee · The Forum 10 2021 Challenges of Measuring Party Unity in a Polarized Era: Frances E. Lee · University Press of Kansas eBooks · Scholar only — 2021 Crosscutting Cleavages, Political Institutions, ad Democratic Resilience in the United States Frances E. Lee · Democratic Resilience 2 2021 Enduring Continuities in Congressional Lawmaking Frances E. Lee · Congress Reconsidered, 12th edition — 2021 Learning From Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020 by Seth Masket Frances E. Lee · Perspectives on Politics 0 2020 Capacity in a Centralized Congress Frances E. Lee · Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform 0 2020 The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era Frances E. Lee · University of Chicago Press 171 2020 What is Regular Order Worth? Partisan Lawmaking and Congressional Processes Frances E. Lee · The Journal of Politics 37 2019 Can America Govern Itself? Frances E. Lee · Cambridge University Press 19 2019 Congress and its members Frances E. Lee · CQ Press · Scholar only 1,290 2019 Congress at Work: Legislative Capacity and Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Congress Frances E. Lee · Can America Govern Itself? 19 2019 Democratic Anxieties Frances E. Lee · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Scholar only — 2019 Non-Party Government: Bipartisan Lawmaking and Party Power in Congress Frances E. Lee · Perspectives on Politics 75 2019 Polarization and the Changing American Constitutional System Frances E. Lee · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Scholar only 8 2019 Populism and the American Party System: Opportunities and Constraints Frances E. Lee · Perspectives on Politics 88 2019 Report on the organizational climates of congress Frances E. Lee · Scholar only 10 2019 The hollow parties Frances E. Lee · Can America govern itself · Scholar only 56 2018 Capacity in a Centralized Congress Frances E. Lee · The State of Congressional Capacity Conference, New America · Scholar only 2 2018 The 115th Congress and Questions of Party Unity in a Polarized Era Frances E. Lee · The Journal of Politics 55 2018 The Imprint of Congress by David R. Mayhew Frances E. Lee · Political Science Quarterly 0 2017 Governing and Messaging: The Speaker in a Partisan Era Frances E. Lee · Extensions: A Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center — 2017 Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency by William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe Frances E. Lee · The Journal of Politics 1 2017 Repeal-and-replace is probably doomed. Congress rarely works along party lines Frances E. Lee · Washingtonpost. com · Scholar only — 2016 Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign Frances E. Lee · University of Chicago Press 897 2016 Legislative Parties in an Era of Alternating Majorities Frances E. Lee · Governing in a Polarized Age 15 2016 Making Deals in Congress Frances E. Lee · Political Negotiation · needs review 18 2016 Party Competition and Conflict in State Legislatures Frances E. Lee · State Politics & Policy Quarterly 94 2016 Patronage, Logrolls, and Polarization: Congressional Parties of the Gilded Age, 1876-1896 Frances E. Lee · Studies in American Political Development 33 2015 American Politics is More Competitive Than Ever, and That is Making Partisanship Worse Frances E. Lee · Political Polarization in American Politics — 2015 A Review of Steven S. Smith, The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate Frances E. Lee · Congress & the Presidency 0 2015 How Party Polarization Affects Governance Frances E. Lee · Annual Review of Political Science 303 2015 Making Deals in Congress Frances E. Lee · Solutions to Political Polarization in America · needs review 112 2015 The Political Consequences of Majority Rule: A Discussion of Melissa Schwartzberg’s Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule Frances E. Lee · Perspectives on Politics 0 2014 Business Interests and the Party Coalitions: Industry Sector Contributions to U.S. Congressional Campaigns Frances E. Lee · American Politics Research 42 2014 Parties as Coordinators: Can Parties Unite What the Constitution Divides? Frances E. Lee · Guide to U.S. Political Parties 0 2014 The Challenge of Bipartisanship: A Historical Perspective Frances E. Lee · Working Congress: A Guide for Representatives, Senators, and Citizens — 2013 Making Deals in Congress Frances E. Lee · Negotiating Agreement in Politics, Task Force Report · needs review — 2013 Presidents and Party Teams: The Politics of Debt Limits and Executive Oversight, 2001-2013 Frances E. Lee · Presidential Studies Quarterly 49 2012 Congress and Its Members. 13th Edition Frances E. Lee · CQ Press — 2012 Geographic Distribution of the Federal Stimulus of 2009 Frances E. Lee · Political Science Quarterly · Scholar only 47 2012 Individual and Partisan Activism on the Senate Floor Frances E. Lee · The U.S. Senate: From Deliberation to Dysfunction 11 2012 The Distributive Politics of the Federal Stimulus: The Geography of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Frances E. Lee · Political Science Quarterly — 2012 The Individual and the Team in the United States Senate Frances E. Lee · Extensions: A Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center —