A "Presidency-Augmented" Model of Presidential Success on House Roll Call Votes

Covington, Cary R; Wrighton, J. Mark; Kinney, Rhonda

doi:10.2307/2111667

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“…The evidence presented here fills in the missing piece of whether the president's influence extends into other domestic areas. These findings tend to support the idea of a "presidency-centered" model of policymaking (Covington, Wrighton, and Kinney 1995), especially in light of the recent findings by Canes-Wrone and de Marchi (2002), who found that the president can translate public issue salience and high approval ratings into legislative success. Because this research demonstrates that the president is able to direct public attention to his agenda priorities, it suggests the president is perhaps also able to take the reins of his domestic agenda and convert these priorities into legislative victories.…”

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confidence: 79%

The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

Cummins¹

2007

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Initial research on presidential agenda-setting suggested the president can focus the public’s attention on certain policy issues, while subsequent research has concluded the president may be more limited in his agenda-setting capacity and that a reciprocal relationship may exist between the president and the public. The purpose of this paper is to address this research in three ways. First, I update and extend the time period studied in the earlier research, 1953-1989, by including an additional 11 years of data. Second, I explore three substantive policy areas within domestic policy, crime, education, and health and social welfare, which were previously not examined, to determine the reciprocal nature of the relationship and whether the president’s influence has diminished. Third, I investigate a factor in presidential agenda setting that has heretofore been ignored in the literature— divided government. Time series analysis of annual data reveal that a reciprocal relationship exists, the president has significant influence over the public agenda in all three areas, and that divided government makes the president’s agenda-setting job more difficult.

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The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

Cummins¹

2007

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“…Edwards (2006) notes slippage in partisan support in Congress "forces the White House to adopt an activist orientation towards party leadership and sometimes devote as much effort to converting party members to support them as to mobilizing members of their party who already agree with them" (176, 272; see also Edwards 1989;Heith 2012, 133). Covington, Wrighton and Kinney (1995) argue that the president can influence legislative outcomes through the party leadership's influence on the rank-and-file members. Partisan support in the legislature has been demonstrated to link to survival of chief executives in office as a way to demonstrate the ability to govern and hold the line against impeachment (Rottinghaus 2014).…”

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Does Partisanship Stop at Scandal’s Edge? Partisan Resiliency and the Survival of Political Scandal

Cortina¹,

Rottinghaus²

2017

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The outbreak of political scandal depresses the approval ratings of the individuals involved, especially the president. Yet, less is known about the partisan effects of approval ratings during scandal, especially the “stickiness” of partisan ties to leaders involved in scandal. Using a survey experiment, we expose respondents to manufactured news coverage of both illegal and not illegal (mismanaged policy) activities involving President Obama. The results demonstrate that the President’s co-partisans are more likely to approve of the President and less likely to desire to impeach the president, even after being informed about illegal activity. In contrast, out partisans are more likely to demand the President’s impeachment for both illegal and not illegal activity. This article provides evidence of how partisanship persists (and even expands) during presidential scandals and how partisan linkages are important to surviving scandal.

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“…Research has shown that a president is more likely to win passage of his legislation if it comes from his agenda rather than proposed by someone else (Covington et al 1995;Steger 1997). In fact when the president mentions crime in his yearly State of the Union Address the public's salience about crime rises (Oliver 2002).…”

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Legislating Crime Policy from the White House: Presidential Success with Congress in the Passage of Federal Crime Control Policy

Oliver

Marion

2007

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Previous research has found that presidents, in general, have the power to influence congress in the passage of federal crime control policy. What has not been fully explored is whether presidential supported bills are more likely to influence congress to pass federal crime control bills. Therefore, this study draws upon the theory that presidents influence congress to test the hypothesis that president supported legislation on crime will achieve greater success in congress than nonsupported bills. Analysis of legislative, presidential and congressional data from 1946 through 1996 suggests support for the theory that presidential supported bills are 2.8 times more likely (or 185% more likely) to become law.

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A "Presidency-Augmented" Model of Presidential Success on House Roll Call Votes

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

Does Partisanship Stop at Scandal’s Edge? Partisan Resiliency and the Survival of Political Scandal

Legislating Crime Policy from the White House: Presidential Success with Congress in the Passage of Federal Crime Control Policy

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