Appropriations Decisions as a Bilateral Bargaining Game between President and Congress

Bibliographic Data

ID6300746
AuthorsD Roderick Kiewiet (California Institute of Technology), Mathew D Mccubbins (0000-0003-0606-2109, Duke University)
Year1985
Volume10
Issue2
Pages181
Publication date1985-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLegislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/439723
OpenAlexW1999733979
LanguageEN
Citations received21

In this essay we model appropriations decisions as products of a bilateral bargaining game between a reelection-minded president and Congress. The findings bear out the expectation that the two sides jointly pursue a strategy of accommodation. In awarding appropriations, Congress takes into account the president's preferences embodied in the OMB's budget requests; these requests in turn reflected expectations of congressional action. The evidence also reveals that several important exogenous political and economic variables influence both executive and legislative appropriations decisions

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