President''s Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789-2002

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey E. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. He is the author of twelve books, including Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies that Presidents Choose (1997) and Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age (Cambridge University Press, 2010), both of which won the Richard E. Neustadt Award from the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association for the best book on the presidency. Going Local also won the Goldsmith Book Prize in 2012. Klappentext Jeffrey E. Cohen asks why presidents send to Congress the legislative proposals that they do and what Congress does with those proposals from 1789 to 2002. Zusammenfassung Jeffrey E. Cohen looks at US presidents' legislative proposals to Congress from 1789 to 2002! analyzing why presidents submit one proposal rather than another and what Congress does with the proposals. He investigates trends in presidential requests to Congress! the substantive policies of the proposals and the presidential decision process in building legislative agendas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Two puzzles; 1. The president's legislative policy agenda; 2. Studying agenda building; 3. A theory of presidential legislative policy agenda building; 4. The size of the president's agenda; 5. The substantive content of presidential agenda; 6. Divided government and presidential policy moderation; 7. From the White House to Capitol Hill: presidential agenda success in Congress; 8. Conclusions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Jeffrey E. (Fordham University Cohen, Cohen Jeffrey E.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107012707
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01270-7
• Pagine: 314
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, United States of America, USA, Political leaders and leadership, Constitution: government and the state