With one party controlling the presidency and the opposing party controlling Congress, the veto has inevitably become a critical tool of presidential power. Combining sophisticated game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile Congress. Case studies of the most important vetoes in recent history add texture to the analysis, detailing how President Clinton altered the course of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution. Offering the first book-length analysis to bring rational choice theory to bear on the presidency, Veto Bargaining is a major contribution to our understanding of American politics in an age of divided party government.
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With one party controlling the presidency and the opposing party controlling Congress, the veto has inevitably become a critical tool of presidential power. Combining sophisticated game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile Congress. Case studies of the most important vetoes in recent history add texture to the analysis, detailing how President Clinton altered the course of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution. Offering the first book-length analysis to bring rational choice theory to bear on the presidency, Veto Bargaining is a major contribution to our understanding of American politics in an age of divided party government.
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This review is from: Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (Paperback)
The book review does not lie when it calls this book a major contribution. To political scientists interested in formal theory, the presidency, executive-legislative relations, or divided government, this book is one of the best to come along in years. Especially in presidential studies, this book is probably the best to come along since Light's "President's Agenda," and perhaps the best since 1960 and Neustadt's "Presidential Power." For formal theory people, this book is an exemplar of how good, rigorous theory and careful, skilled empirical analysis can work together to produce both a well-reasoned and well-supported picture of the veto and its affect on policy. For those who abhor formal theory, the rich case studies are informative reading, too. Overall, this book is what political science should be about.
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American political scientists have rediscovered what the foremost historian of the Founding Era calls "the major justification for all the constitutional reforms the Republicans proposed" in 1789, the principle "expanded and exalted by the Americans to the foremost position in their constitutionalism," in fact "the dominant principle of the American political system" (Wood 1969:449, 604). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
veto chains, override player, sequential veto bargaining, override game, legislative significance, failed override attempt, split party congresses, veto rate, immigration veto, override model, interbranch bargaining, override attempts, more significant legislation, unified versus divided government, landmark enactments, repassed bills, minor legislation, veto politics, next veto, legislative productivity, applicability scale, successful override, deadline effect, veto threats, veto strategy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, Congressional Quarterly, New York, White House, Legislative Significance Figure, Capitol Hill, President Bush, South Africa, Supreme Court, Weekly Report, Democratic Congress, Democratic Party, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President Ford, Ronald Reagan, Sweep One, Anti-Apartheid Act, District of Columbia, Internal Security Act, Lyndon Johnson, Republican Congress, Rules Committee, Taft-Hartley Act, United States New!
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American political scientists have rediscovered what the foremost historian of the Founding Era calls "the major justification for all the constitutional reforms the Republicans proposed" in 1789, the principle "expanded and exalted by the Americans to the foremost position in their constitutionalism," in fact "the dominant principle of the American political system" (Wood 1969:449, 604). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
veto chains, override player, sequential veto bargaining, override game, legislative significance, failed override attempt, split party congresses, veto rate, immigration veto, override model, interbranch bargaining, override attempts, more significant legislation, unified versus divided government, landmark enactments, repassed bills, minor legislation, veto politics, next veto, legislative productivity, applicability scale, successful override, deadline effect, veto threats, veto strategy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, Congressional Quarterly, New York, White House, Legislative Significance Figure, Capitol Hill, President Bush, South Africa, Supreme Court, Weekly Report, Democratic Congress, Democratic Party, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President Ford, Ronald Reagan, Sweep One, Anti-Apartheid Act, District of Columbia, Internal Security Act, Lyndon Johnson, Republican Congress, Rules Committee, Taft-Hartley Act, United States New!
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