Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: The President's Agenda: Position-Taking, Legislative Support, and the Persistence of Time

总统的议程和国会对总统计划的支持是美国公共政策和选举政治的关键驱动力。这个博士论文资助项目提出了一系列研究，以研究总统和美国众议院之间的关系。从分析总统的立场，研究讨论了结构检查正常的立法程序，占立法支持总统的计划，总统否决权，这些否决权的立法推翻。该研究提供了一个程序，检查在何种条件下，总统和立法为中心的变量影响总统的立场，立法支持总统，总统否决/立法推翻美国众议院之前的投票。该项目还引入了政治和政权时间的概念，作为限制和增强更传统的总统和立法为中心的预测总统立法关系的影响的关键变量。该项目的智力价值是方法和理论。该研究计划建议收集一个大型数据集-美国众议院超过3,300张选票-其中包括总统和众议院在众议院投票前可能采取的每一项行动。该研究特别涉及使用数据集来评估总统采取立场，这些立场的立法支持以及总统否决/立法推翻行动发生的条件。研究表明，一个精心收集的数据集将允许分析总统立法关系中的每个离散阶段，从而有可能分析总统和立法活动对众议院投票的嵌套模型。该项目建议使用横截面时间序列分析-概率单位，logit，或嵌套logit非线性，参数模型-检查国会和总统之间的关系。 这项研究可以增进对总统如何影响美国众议院议员行为的了解。

The president's agenda and Congress's support for the president's programs are key drivers in American public policy and electoral politics. This dissertation grant project suggests a stream of research to examine the relationship between the president and the US House of Representatives. Beginning with an analysis of presidential position taking, the research discusses the structure for examining the normal legislative process that accounts for legislative support for the president's program, presidential vetoes, and legislative overrides of those vetoes. The research offers a program that examines the conditions under which presidency- and legislative-centered variables affect presidential position taking, legislative support for the president, and presidential veto/legislative overrides on votes before the US House of Representatives. The project also introduces the concepts of political and regime time as critical variables that both constrain and augment the effects of more traditional president- and legislative-centered predictors of presidential-legislative relations. The intellectual merits of the project are both methodological and theoretical. The research program proposes collecting a large data set-over 3,300 votes in the US House of Representatives-that incorporates each of the possible actions the president and House of Representatives take on votes before the House. The research specifically addresses using the data set to assess the conditions under which presidential position taking, legislative support for those positions, and presidential veto/legislative override actions occur. The research suggests that a carefully collected data set will allow analyses of each discrete stage in the presidential legislative relationship, making possible analysis of nested models of presidential and legislative activity on House votes. The project proposes using cross sectional time series analysis-with probit, logit, or nested logit non-linear, parametric models-to examine the relationship between Congress and the president.Broader value: the study can enhance understanding of how presidents influence the behaviors of US House members.