The enigma of presidential power
Subtitle: parties, policies, and strategic uses of unilateral action
By: Fang-Yi Chiou, Academia Sinica, Lawrence S. Rothenberg, University of Rochester
Contributors: Rothenberg, Lawrence S., author
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781107191501; 9781316642115
Subjects: Presidents; Executive power
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thinking about power: theoretical models; title: Not all unilateral actions are created equal: measuring the significance of executive; title: Orders; title: The race for power: empirically examining competing models; title: Bringing the parties in: legislative partisan influence and presidential power; title: The subtleties of power: assessing the two presidencies; title: Conclusions: solving the enigma of presidential power; title: Appendix 1: statements of probability of unilateral action, propositions 1-4 and their proofs; title: Appendix 2: an item response model incorporating rater attributes; title: Appendix 3: formal presentation of framework with party roles in legislative stage: Proposition 1, and expected incentives of unilateral action; title: Appendix 4: results with party roles in legislative state for alternative threshold levels.