Passing the President's Program: Public Opinion and Presidential Influence in Congress
- Creators
- Rivers, Douglas
- Rose, Nancy L.
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).
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.Attached Files
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- 81546
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170918-154335090
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2017-09-19Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-10-03Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Social Science Working Papers
- Series Name
- Social Science Working Paper
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 549