2024
DOI: 10.1177/1532673x241284563
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The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss

Jacob Holt

Abstract: The president’s party normally loses seats in the House of Representatives during US midterm elections. While many studies have examined the causes of seat loss, one area often mentioned by media pundits but not examined in midterm elections is the role of presidential agendas. In this paper, I examine whether legislative success is costly for the president’s party during midterm elections. I find passing a larger number of legislative items and passing a larger percentage of the president’s agenda costs the p… Show more

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