Legislating Together – The White House & Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan: White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan - Hardcover

Mark A Peterson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674524152 ISBN 13: 9780674524156

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Mark Peterson investigates how recent presidents have engaged Congress on domestic policy issues. Rejecting the presidency-centered perspective on national government that is so firmly rooted in the popular imagination, he argues in this sophisticated analysis that the response of Congress to presidential initiatives is often far more cooperative than the presidency-centered perspective suggests.

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Review

Mark Peterson has undertaken a project that is rare in the field of presidential congressional relations. He has identified 5,069 presidential domestic policy proposals from Eisenhower to Reagan (through 1984) and sampled 299 for quantitative analysis. The project's comprehensiveness sets Peterson's work apart... Peterson has provided an extremely valuable study, for both the insights he has generated, and the role model he has created for others who study presidential-congressional relations.--Gary R. Covington "Journal of Politics "

This book contributes positively to a new and improved understanding of presidential-congressional relations... [It] tackles a large topic and the author sensibly narrows it by concentrating on domestic policy and on the president's legislative initiatives... [Legislating Together] deserves the attention it will receive as a contribution to better understanding of the interaction between the White House and Congress.--Charles O. Jones "Political Science Quarterly "

This may well be the best analysis extant of congressional-executive relationships in regard to legislation.--Aaron Wildavsky, University of California, Berkeley

About the Author

Mark A. Peterson is Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0674524152
• ISBN 13: 9780674524156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358