Veto Bargaining
Subtitle: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521625500
Subjects: Central government; Political structure & processes; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Presidents; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science / General; Veto--United States; General; Executive power; Politics and government; United States; Veto
First sentence: American political scientists have rediscovered what the foremost historian of the Founding Era calls "the major justification for all the constitutional reforms the Republicans proposed" in 1789, the principle "expanded and exalted by the Americans to the foremost position in their constitutionalism," in fact "the dominant principle of the American political system" (Wood 1969:449, 604).
Description: "This book analyzes the politics of the presidential veto. Combining sophisticated game theory with unprecedented data, it shows how presidents use vetoes and threats of vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile Congress. Case studies of the most important vetoes in recent history add texture to the analysis.

The first book-length attempt to bring rational choice theory to bear on the presidency, Veto Bargaining is a major contribution to our understanding of American politics in an age of divided party government."--BOOK JACKET.