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The President on Capitol Hill - A Theory of Institutional Influence (Hardcover)
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The President on Capitol Hill - A Theory of Institutional Influence (Hardcover)
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Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most
research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that
presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead,
structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of
the president's legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol
Hill, Jeffrey E. Cohen challenges this conventional view, arguing
that existing research has underestimated the president's power to
sway Congress and developing a new theory of presidential
influence. Cohen demonstrates that by taking a position, the
president converts an issue from a nonpresidential into a
presidential one, which leads members of Congress to consider the
president's views when deciding how to vote. Presidential position
taking also converts the factors that normally affect roll call
voting-such as party, public opinion, and policy type-into
resources that presidents can leverage to influence the vote. By
testing all House roll calls from 1877 to 2012, Cohen finds that
not only do presidents have more influence than previously thought,
but through their influence, they can affect the substance of
public policy. The President on Capitol Hill offers a new
perspective on presidential-congressional relations, showing that
presidents are not simply captives of larger political forces but
rather major players in the legislative process.
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