Congress and the presidency : institutional politics in a separated system

著者

• Foley, Michael
• Owens, John E.

書誌事項

Congress and the presidency : institutional politics in a separated system

Michael Foley and John E. Owens

（Political analyses）

Manchester Univeristy Press, 1996

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780719038839

内容説明

In this study, the authors argue that over the last three decades the ways in which Congress and the presidency operate and interact have changed in several significant respects. Adopting a distinctly institutional focus, the text explains the nature of these changes and examines their consequences for the contemporary American political system. Foley and Owens direct attention to both bodies as co-equal institutions in a separated system. They examine both the historical development of the Congress and the presidency as separate institutions within American national government, as well as the changing relations between them. Taking into account important developments since the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994 and the advent of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America", the authors consider how the organizational designs of these representative and governing institutions have responded over time to internal pressures and external factors. The book locates the two institutions within the policy-making process and studies the varied and complex implications of "the politics of separated powers". The authors emphasize the dynamism of America's foremost political institutions within a democratic system. They examine recent developments in relation to the wider context of United States politics and reassert the importance of institutions in understanding this unique political system.

目次

• Part 1 The dynamics of institutional change in Congress: before the Constitution
• the institutional development of Congress
• four eras of institutional change. Part 2 Congress' electoral connection: the nature of Congressional elections
• the formal context of Congressional representation
• Congressional recruitment
• incumbents and their constituents. Part 3 Congress as an organization - member enterprises and committees: a week in Congress
• Congress and the problem of representation
• House-Senate differences
• members' personal enterprises
• legislation and lawmaking
• the committee system. Part 4 Congressional parties and legislative decision-making: party organizations
• majority party leadership
• Congressional decision-making. Part 5 The institutionalization of the Presidency: constitutional and historical roots
• Presidents, precedents and institutionalization
• executive government as a source of presidential power
• executive government as a limitation of presidential power
• benefits and problems of control devices
• de-institutionalization. Part 6 The public Presidency: Federal conditions and party divisions
• the Presidency and the promise of national leadership
• primary elections as solutions and problems
• dollar democracy
• political television and media politics
• party de-alignment and candidate-based electioneering
• the public presidency and the "permanent election". Part 7 Presidential decision-making: the collective deficiencies of the American Cabinet
• contraction as a response to the problem of decision making
• the individual as the normative and empirical foundations of Presidential decision-making
• the corrective dimension of the political environment. Part 8 Legislating together: the Constitution and the growth of the Presidency-centred tradition
• the legislative Presidency
• institutional competition within a separated system
• Presidential leadership skills
• Presidential popularity
• the President and Congressional partisanship
• the President and legislators' ideologies
• the strategic environment for legislating
• legislating together. Part 9 Interpreting the separation of powers: the conceptual, structural and cultural components of separated powers
• the contemporary significance of the separation of powers
• the Supreme Court and Presidential restraint
• the Supreme Court and Congressional constraint
• the Supreme Court and executive licence
• the limits of judicial management
• the politics of separated powers. Part 10 Policy controversies: foreign policy as an executive prerogative
• the challenge
• new environments and disrupted orthodoxies
• administration as an executive function
• administration as a Congressional interest
• Congressional controls over the administrative process
• Congress as co-manager of the executive. Part 11 The Congress, the Presidency and the democratic system.

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780719038846

内容説明

In this study, the authors argue that over the last three decades the ways in which Congress and the presidency operate and interact have changed in several significant respects. Adopting a distinctly institutional focus, the text explains the nature of these changes and examines their consequences for the contemporary American political system. Foley and Owens direct attention to both bodies as co-equal institutions in a separated system. They examine both the historical development of the Congress and the presidency as separate institutions within American national government, as well as the changing relations between them. Taking into account important developments since the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994 and the advent of Newt Gingrich's 'Contract with America', the authors consider how the organizational designs of these representative and governing institutions have responded over time to internal pressures and external factors. The book locates the two institutions within the policy-making process and studies the varied and complex implications of 'the politics of separated powers'. The authors emphasize the dynamism of America's foremost political institutions within a democratic system. They examine recent developments in relation to the wider context of United States politics and reassert the importance of institutions in understanding this unique political system. -- .

目次

• Part 1 The dynamics of institutional change in Congress: before the Constitution
• the institutional development of Congress
• four eras of institutional change. Part 2 Congress' electoral connection: the nature of Congressional elections
• the formal context of Congressional representation
• Congressional recruitment
• incumbents and their constituents. Part 3 Congress as an organization - member enterprises and committees: a week in Congress
• Congress and the problem of representation
• House-Senate differences
• members' personal enterprises
• legislation and lawmaking
• the committee system. Part 4 Congressional parties and legislative decision-making: party organizations
• majority party leadership
• Congressional decision-making. Part 5 The institutionalization of the Presidency: constitutional and historical roots
• Presidents, precedents and institutionalization
• executive government as a source of presidential power
• executive government as a limitation of presidential power
• benefits and problems of control devices
• de-institutionalization. Part 6 The public Presidency: Federal conditions and party divisions
• the Presidency and the promise of national leadership
• primary elections as solutions and problems
• dollar democracy
• political television and media politics
• party de-alignment and candidate-based electioneering
• the public presidency and the "permanent election". Part 7 Presidential decision-making: the collective deficiencies of the American Cabinet
• contraction as a response to the problem of decision making
• the individual as the normative and empirical foundations of Presidential decision-making
• the corrective dimension of the political environment. Part 8 Legislating together: the Constitution and the growth of the Presidency-centred tradition
• the legislative Presidency
• institutional competition within a separated system
• Presidential leadership skills
• Presidential popularity
• the President and Congressional partisanship
• the President and legislators' ideologies
• the strategic environment for legislating
• legislating together. Part 9 Interpreting the separation of powers: the conceptual, structural and cultural components of separated powers
• the contemporary significance of the separation of powers
• the Supreme Court and Presidential restraint
• the Supreme Court and Congressional constraint
• the Supreme Court and executive licence
• the limits of judicial management
• the politics of separated powers. Part 10 Policy controversies: foreign policy as an executive prerogative
• the challenge
• new environments and disrupted orthodoxies
• administration as an executive function
• administration as a Congressional interest
• Congressional controls over the administrative process
• Congress as co-manager of the executive. Part 11 The Congress, the Presidency and the democratic system.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27921006
• ISBN:
  • 0719038839
  • 0719038847
• LCCN: 95021418
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Manchester
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 432 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 312.53
  • LCC : JK305
  • DC20 : 320.473
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Separation of powers -- United States
  • LCSH : United States. Congress
  • LCSH : Presidents -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA28397786