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The Presidency, Congress, and Divided Government: A Postwar Assessment (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership) - Hardcover

 
9781585442119: The Presidency, Congress, and Divided Government: A Postwar Assessment (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership)
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Can presidents hope to be effective in policy making when Congress is ruled by the other party? Political scientist Richard Conley brings to this crucial discussion a fresh perspective. He argues persuasively that the conditions of divided government have changed in recent years, and he applies a rigorous methodology that allows the testing of a number of important assumptions about party control of the legislative process and the role of the president.

Conley demonstrates that recent administrations have faced a very different playing field than those in the earlier post-war years because of such critical developments in electoral politics as decreasing presidential coattails and the lack of presidential popularity in opposition members’ districts. Moreover, he identifies several changes in the institutional setting in Congress that have affected both the legislative success rates of presidents’ programs and the strategies presidents pursue. These institutional factors include more assertive legislative majorities, changes in leadership structure, and increased party cohesion in voting.

Conley uses both case studies and sophisticated time-series regression analyses to examine the floor success of presidential initiatives, the strategies presidents use in working with the legislature, and the use of veto power to achieve presidential aims.

Scholars of the presidency and those interested in the larger American political process will find in this book both food for thought and a model of analytic sophistication.

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RICHARD S. CONLEY, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida, has had a number of articles on American and Canadian politics published in scholarly journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a M.A. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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“Conley . . . selects an important issue: the near-permanence of divided government in the national government for the part two decades and its dominance ever since 1946. Although split-party control has not produced policy deadlock or gridlock, neither has its impact on presidential leadership and the retention of congressional prerogatives been adequately explored and analyzed.”--C. Louis Fisher (C. Louis Fisher)

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  • PublisherTexas A&M University Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1585442119
  • ISBN 13 9781585442119
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages296

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