Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise.
Why do legislators reject such agreements? This engaging and relevant investigation into how politicians think reveals that legislators refuse Compromise - and exacerbate gridlock - because they fear punishment from voters in primary elections..
Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject Compromise proposals that would move policy in their preferred direction.
Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise