GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Executive Privilege, Walter Bagehot, Pocket Veto
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Must remember party constituency when estimating and addressing concerns. Must find right balance between national constituencies (created by general election) and partisan constituencies (shaped by presidential primaries) Parisian constituencies often take a more extreme position than the national. When presidents have larger majorities in congress, they are more likely to get their proposed legislation approved: divided and unified government. Unified government: (cid:272)lear (cid:373)ajorities of preside(cid:374)t"s politi(cid:272)al part i(cid:374) (cid:271)oth house a(cid:374)d. Divided government: the control of the presidency by one party and the control of one or both houses of congress by the other. More than 80% of the ti(cid:373)e, preside(cid:374)t"s either fail to se(cid:272)ure passage of (cid:373)ajor legislati(cid:448)e agendas or must make important compromises to win congressional approval. Presidential frustration with congress feel they have a duty to take decisive action: roose(cid:448)elt: (cid:862)if o(cid:374)ly i had the po(cid:449)er to (cid:271)e preside(cid:374)t, a(cid:374)d co(cid:374)gress too, for just (cid:1005)(cid:1004) (cid:373)i(cid:374)utes. (cid:863, power to recommend.
