The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss

J Holt - American Politics Research, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The president's party normally loses seats in the House of Representatives during US
midterm elections. While many studies have examined the causes of seat loss, one area …

Presidential Strategies in Statements of Administration Policy

I Ostrander, J Sievert - Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Presidents routinely employ Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs) to inform Congress
about the executive's thoughts and position on pending legislation. Such statements are …

Analyzing arguments in executive veto messages

J Koss, I Ostrander, J Sievert - Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The executive veto is one of the most important instruments of presidential power within the
legislative arena. Because of constitutional requirements, every regular veto and many …

Try, Try Again: Repeat Veto Threats in Presidential-Congressional Bargaining

J Lewallen - Congress & the Presidency, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Presidents use veto threats to bargain over legislation with Congress. While presidents may
fail if Congress passes legislation over their veto threat, they also lose some power if they …

The assertive presidency–understanding preemptive executive pressure on foreign policy legislation in the US

J Wiedekind - 2023 - repo.uni-hannover.de
The specter of an increasingly uneven distribution of power between the Executive Branch
and Congress looms large in scholarship on the separation of powers in American …

Presidential Strategies in Statements of Administration Policy

JTTU Sievert, I Ostrander - 2022 - ttu-ir.tdl.org
Presidents routinely employ Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs) to inform Congress
about the executive's thoughts and position on pending legislation. Such statements are …