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Getting Along or Striking Out: The Effects of Presidential-Congressional Relations on Public Approval

Breland, Andrew
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7931-1036
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1431449389

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2015, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Political Science.
The President and Congress are, perhaps, the two most visible and thought-about institutions in the US government. Traditionally, we think of these actors as separate and adversarial. What if they would both benefit, however, from getting along? This thesis shows that Presidential and Congressional approval grow as the President and Congress take fewer unilateral actions and act with less hostility toward each other. Specifically, using a new dataset of presidential and congressional actions, this paper shows that while inter-branch conflict gets more intense (more vetoes, overrides, investigations, etc.), approval for both institutions actually goes down. This brings into question whether the President and Congress are actually adversarial and leads to new avenues of research for scholars of the federal government.
Joseph White (Advisor)
Karen Beckwith (Committee Member)
Justin Buchler (Committee Member)
97 p.
Political Science
President; Congress; approval; presidential-congressional relations; federal government; Gallup; vetoes; investigations; ideology;

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  • Breland, A. (2015). Getting Along or Striking Out: The Effects of Presidential-Congressional Relations on Public Approval [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1431449389

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Breland, Andrew. Getting Along or Striking Out: The Effects of Presidential-Congressional Relations on Public Approval. 2015. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1431449389.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Breland, Andrew. "Getting Along or Striking Out: The Effects of Presidential-Congressional Relations on Public Approval." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1431449389

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