All Politics is Presidential: Why U.S. Politics is Presidentializing, Not Nationalizing

• In Event: Understanding the Modern Presidency

Brief Overview

Using novel data, including analysis of cable news rhetoric and original surveys at the subnational level, we suggest what is being called nationalization actually is the presidentialization of the American constitutional system.

Authors

• Seth Philip Benson, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Jennifer L. Selin, Penn State Law