Asymmetric Presidential Influence on Congressional Appropriations and the Two Presidencies

• In Event: JSS 13
  In JSS Session: Presidents and Executive Politics: Junior Scholar Symposium

Brief Overview

We subject the "two presidencies" thesis in American politics to a new empirical test based on presidential influence on congressional appropriations for several areas of foreign and domestic policy.

Authors

• Huchen Liu, University of California-San Diego

• Lee Elton Dionne, University of California-San Diego