Veto Bargaining

Description

"This book analyzes the politics of the presidential veto. Combining sophisticated game theory with unprecedented data, it shows how presidents use vetoes and threats of vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile Congress. Case studies of the most important vetoes in recent history add texture to the analysis. The first book-length attempt to bring rational choice theory to bear on the presidency, Veto Bargaining is a major contribution to our understanding of American politics in an age of divided party government."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

American political scientists have rediscovered what the foremost historian of the Founding Era calls "the major justification for all the constitutional reforms the Republicans proposed" in 1789, the principle "expanded and exalted by the Americans to the foremost position in their constitutionalism," in fact "the dominant principle of the American political system" (Wood 1969:449, 604).

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Other Editions

• Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)PaperbackCambridge University Press2000-06-19
• Veto BargainingHardcoverCambridge University Press2000-06-19
• Veto BargainingCambridge University Press2010-01-01
• Veto BargainingCambridge University Press2011-01-01