Politics or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters to Presidential Leadership of Congress.

In this article, we examine the linkage between presidential policy proposal messages and legislative success. Employing a data set on presidential legislative proposals that covers the years 1949-2010, we find that politics matters less than policy. Purely political messages that reference the elec...

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Published in:	Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 549 - 577
Main Authors:	VILLALOBOS, JOSÉ D., VAUGHN, JUSTIN S., AZARI, JULIA R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2012
Subjects:	United States United States. Congress Partisanship Presidents of the United States Rhetoric United States politics & government
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