Presidential power and partisan polarization

Since the publication of the first edition of Richard Neustadt's Presidential Power in 1960 the two political parties in the United States have grown further and further apart ideologically, especially in the United States Congress. This essay evaluates how that polarization has fundamentally reshaped the opportunities for the president to influence the voting decisions of members of Congress. The first chapter lays out a basic framework for understanding the possibilities for presidential persuasion in the realm of congressional roll call voting, and offers a basic theory of how polarization has fundamentally changed the opportunities the president has to affect how members vote.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Hoar, Samuel R.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Devin Caughey.

• Political Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124272

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