This balanced readable analysis of how the two major branches of government work together to make public policy includes 16 case studies and reflects on changes since the 9/11 attacks.
The authors of this text, one a presidential scholar and the other a congressional scholar, view the two branches as coequals in policymaking. They take a “shared governance” approach and provide a policy focus, looking not only at the policy process but also evaluating policy results in the areas of foreign policy, civil rights, economic and budget policy, and social welfare. It is organized around an original framework that identifies four patterns of policymaking: presidential leadership, congressional leadership, consensus/cooperation, and deadlock/extraordinary resolution. A separate case study illustrates each of the four patterns in each of the four policy areas, serving as an integral part of the text to enhance the student's understanding. The four patterns of policymaking and the case studies comprise an effective tool for helping students understand the increasingly complex relations between Congress and the President. Two new case studies look at the Bush tax cut and the Anti-terrorist (Patriot) Act.

President and Congress, The: Collaboration and Combat in National Policymaking

Politics & Social Sciences

Shull, Steven A.

LeLoup, Lance T.

Politics & Government

Allyn&Bacon

This balanced readable analysis of how the two major branches of government work together to make public policy includes 16 case studies and reflects on changes since the 9/11 attacks. The authors of this text, one a presidential scholar and the other a congressional scholar, view the two branches as coequals in policymaking. They take a “shared governance” approach and provide a policy focus, looking not only at the policy process but also evaluating policy results in the areas of foreign policy, civil rights, economic and budget policy, and social welfare. It is organized around an original framework that identifies four patterns of policymaking: presidential leadership, congressional leadership, consensus/cooperation, and deadlock/extraordinary resolution. A separate case study illustrates each of the four patterns in each of the four policy areas, serving as an integral part of the text to enhance the student's understanding. The four patterns of policymaking and the case studies comprise an effective tool for helping students understand the increasingly complex relations between Congress and the President. Two new case studies look at the Bush tax cut and the Anti-terrorist (Patriot) Act.

The President and Congress: Collaboration and Combat in National Policymaking (2nd Edition)

Pearson

When Congress and the presidency are controlled by opposing parties, the potential for conflict between the two branches is often emphasized. And yet both conflict and cooperation between the president and Congress are an essential and ongoing part of the policy-making process whatever the split in government might be. Starting with Theodore Lowi's idea that different kinds of policies have different kinds of politics, political scientists have created ways of classifying policies that enable us to explore the politics associated with types of policy. For example, some argue that the relationship between the president and Congress on foreign policy issues will differ from the politics of public works projects because the president and Congress will bring different levels of interest and political and institutional resources to bear on these policies. Steven Shull explores several of these policy typologies in order to develop a picture of how presidential and congressional relations are different from issue to issue and how we can predict when the president and Congress will cooperate or when they will fight. In addition, he looks at changes over time in how the two branches of government relate on policy issues, examining the relationship between the presidency and Congress from the Eisenhower Administration through the first Clinton Administration. This study breaks new ground in combining several policy typologies with a longitudinal analysis that sheds new light on the nature of presidential and congressional relations and on the usefulness of these typologies. This book will appeal to political scientists and historians interested in the presidency and Congress. Steven Shull is Research Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans, and the author of many books and articles on the presidency.

Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches

University of Michigan Press

When Congress and the presidency are controlled by opposing parties, the potential for conflict between the two branches is often emphasized. And yet both conflict and cooperation between the president and Congress are an essential and ongoing part of the policy-making process whatever the split in government might be. Starting with Theodore Lowi's idea that different kinds of policies have different kinds of politics, political scientists have created ways of classifying policies that enable us to explore the politics associated with types of policy. For example, some argue that the relationship between the president and Congress on foreign policy issues will differ from the politics of public works projects because the president and Congress will bring different levels of interest and political and institutional resources to bear on these policies. Steven Shull explores several of these policy typologies in order to develop a picture of how presidential and congressional relations are different from issue to issue and how we can predict when the president and Congress will cooperate or when they will fight. In addition, he looks at changes over time in how the two branches of government relate on policy issues, examining the relationship between the presidency and Congress from the Eisenhower Administration through the first Clinton Administration. This study breaks new ground in combining several policy typologies with a longitudinal analysis that sheds new light on the nature of presidential and congressional relations and on the usefulness of these typologies. This book will appeal to political scientists and historians interested in the presidency and Congress. Steven Shull is Research Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans, and the author of many books and articles on the presidency.

Book by Leloup, Lance T., Shull, Steven A.

Congress and the President: The Policy Connection

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment

A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion of the issues of accountability and policy leadership.

Business & Money

Thomas, Norman C.

Economics

Routledge

Thomas, Norman C. A.

The president is the key actor in civil rights policy-- its advance, reversal, or neglect. This book documents the critical role presidents have played in setting the agenda, framing the terms of the debate, and formulating specific policy goals with respect to civil rights. By identifying the limits of presidential influence as well as the impact of presidential leadership vis-a-vis the Congress and federal agencies, Shull is able to compare presidents in terms of rhetoric, performance, and effectiveness in this most controversial policy arena. 
Expanding upon his previous edition "A Kinder, Gentler Racism?: The Reagan-Bush Civil Rights Legacy", Shull here incorporates the Clinton years, including case studies of the 1996 same-sex marriage controversy and the nominations of Lani Guinier and William Lee for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership

Constitutional Law

M.E.Sharpe

The President is the key actor in civil rights policy -- its advance, reversal, or neglect. This book documents the critical role presidents have played in setting the agenda, framing the terms of the debate, and formulating specific policy goals with respect to civil rights. By identifying the limits of presidential influence as well as the impact of presidential leadership vis-a-vis the Congress and federal agencies, Shull is able to compare presidents in terms of rhetoric, performance, and effectiveness in this most controversial policy arena. Expanding upon his work in A Kinder, Gentler Racism? Shull here incorporates the Clinton years, including case studies of the 1996 same-sex marriage controversy and the nominations of Lani Guinier and William Lee for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

History

Americas

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspectives Approach (Suny Series in the Presidency.)

Provides a multivariate analysis of presidential-congressional interaction. Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations examines government activities involving direct interactions between presidents and Congress and considers whether they are influenced by executive, legislative, and/or exogenous factors. The book encompasses presidential position taking on legislative votes, legislative support of presidents’ positions, presidents’ propensity to veto legislation, and budget agreement between the two branches, all of which are elements in the adoption of public policy.

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach (Presidency Contempor Issues)

Shaw, Thomas C.

State University of New York Press

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President and Congress, The: Collaboration and Combat in National Policymaking

The President and Congress: Collaboration and Combat in National Policymaking (2nd Edition)

Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches

Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches

Congress and the President: The Policy Connection

Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment

Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment

American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership

American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach (Presidency Contempor Issues)