Rivers, Douglas and Rose, Nancy L. (1984) Passing the President's Program: Public Opinion and Presidential Influence in Congress. Social Science Working Paper, 549. California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA. (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170918-154335090
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Abstract
Correlations between legislative support scores and presidential popularity do not accurately reflect the relationship between public opinion and presidential influence in Congress. Presidents make strategic choices to expend their public prestige to obtain congressional approval of programmatic initiatives. Previous studies have ignored such choices as well as other features of the strategic environment which tend to lower the apparent legislative success rates of popular presidents. A model of presidential and congressional behavior is proposed and it is estimated that a one percent increase in a president's public support level increases the president's legislative approval rate by approximately one percent (holding program size fixed).
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Additional Information: | Published as Rivers, Douglas, and Nancy L. Rose. "Passing the president's program: Public opinion and presidential influence in Congress." American Journal of Political Science (1985): 183-196. | ||||||
Group: | Social Science Working Papers | ||||||
Subject Keywords: | Political parties, Public opinion, Prestige, Congressional voting, Congressional legislation, Presidential performance, Congressional elections, Polls, Presidential elections | ||||||
Series Name: | Social Science Working Paper | ||||||
Issue or Number: | 549 | ||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20170918-154335090 | ||||||
Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170918-154335090 | ||||||
Usage Policy: | No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided. | ||||||
ID Code: | 81546 | ||||||
Collection: | CaltechAUTHORS | ||||||
Deposited By: | Jacquelyn Bussone | ||||||
Deposited On: | 19 Sep 2017 16:37 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2019 18:44 |
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