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Presidential Legislative Activity explores the presidency and develops a typology that examines presidential activities. Author Carl D. Cavalli uses samples from the Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to explore questions about presidential behavior. The data confirms much of the heretofore descriptive and anecdotal evidence on such things as levels of presidential activity and travel, but dispute the popular conception of presidents being legislators. One advantage to this approach is the ability to explore commonalities across presidencies, instead of uniquely labeling each administration. Another advantage is the ability to empirically explore the president's relationship with Congress. A regression analysis of activity determines that contact with individual members of Congress is driven by their status within the hierarchy and secondarily by partisan concerns. Finally, there is also some evidence that contact with Congress varies directly with a president's legislative success.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Presidential Leadership
Chapter 4 Power and Influence: Normative Studies of Power; Measures of Influence
Chapter 5 Categorizing Legislative Activities: Type of Activity; Dimensions; Amount of Activity; Discussion of Type and Amount
Chapter 6 Gathering the Data: Sources of Presidential Activity Data; Coding the Data
Chapter 7 Coding the Data—Some Detailed Examples: Typical Coding; Persuasion; Inducement; Organization; Emphasis
Chapter 8 Considerations of Validity and Reliability: Some Initial Notes on the Samples
Chapter 9 Results I: Organization Over Time; Strategy and Legislative Experience; Cyclical Effects; Legislative Experience and Activity; Other Possibilities
Chapter 10 Results II: Contact Data; Contact Data and the Case of Wilbur Mills; Contact Data Analysis; A Consideration for Future Exploration; Summary
Chapter 11 Discussion: What Has Been Learned?; Presidential Leadership in the American System; The Bottom Line
Chapter 12 "Quantitative Biography" and the Future: Cliometrics; Applying Cliometrics to Presidential Studies; The President and Future; Some Thoughts About Future Research; Some Hypotheses for the Future
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 About the Author
Chapter 15 Index
