Congressional Partisanship and Presidential Success
The Case of the Clinton and Bush Presidencies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas W Jaenicke |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 141-149 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9256.00071 |
| OpenAlex | W2066540221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recent scholarship has documented the increased cohesion and influence of the congressional parties. In this new context, the status of the government as either unified or divided should function as an independent variable in determining presidential success rates. Occurring in just such a period, the Bush and Clinton presidencies can be used to test whether presidential success rates vary according to whether the national government is unified or divided. All the relevant data and comparisons confirm the hypothesis. In addition, a comparison of the presidential success rates for Carter and Nixon's first four years indicate that in the preceding period of less cohesive congressional parties there was a much weaker relationship between presidential success and the status of government as either unified or divided
Cohesion (chemistry · Context (archaeology · Divided government · Government (linguistics · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential campaign · Presidential system · Scholarship · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |