The President and the Clerics: Interbranch Bargaining and Subcommittee Influence in Federal Appropriations

• In Event: Party, Ideology, and Persuasion

Brief Overview

We introduce a comprehensive dataset of presidential budget requests and congressional appropriations and test whether presidents are less successful in realizing their preferred budgetary outcomes as a subcommittee is more ideologically distant.

Authors

• Jeremiah Cha, Harvard University

• Jon C. Rogowski, The University of Chicago