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Conley demonstrates that recent administrations have faced a very different playing field than those in the earlier postwar 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 in
The Presidency, Congress, and Divided Government
by Conley, Richard S.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-12-01
Publisher(s): Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Summary
Can presidents hope to be effective in policy making when Congress is ruled by the other party? Political scientist Richard S. 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.
Author Biography
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
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction: Party Control and Presidential Leverage in Political Time | p. 3 |
| The Legislative Presidency and Eras of Congress: A Longitudinal Analysis | p. 44 |
| Truman, Eisenhower, and Divided Government | p. 84 |
| Nixon and Divided Government | p. 110 |
| Reagan and Divided Government | p. 126 |
| Bush, Clinton, and Divided Government | p. 142 |
| Kennedy, Johnson, and Unified Government at the Crossroads of Eras | p. 167 |
| Carter, Clinton, and Unified Government in the Postreform/Party-Unity Era | p. 190 |
| Conclusion | p. 214 |
| Mayhew's Significant Domestic Laws | p. 223 |
| Modeling Congressional Support for the President | p. 233 |
| Presidential Position Votes, 80th House | p. 237 |
| Notes | p. 239 |
| Bibliography | p. 259 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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