-level question: how can presidents influence legislation given the context and Congress they happen to inherit?. Developing a game …

president does not want Congress to become more responsive to public opinion, or when the status quo is not extreme relative to …

lobbying organizations with the expressed purpose of mobilizing supporters to pressure Congress to pass presidential policy …

tenor of elite discourse, as presented in the news, we investigate all interviews with members of Congress on network …

determining how members of the U.S. Congress make decisions. At the same time, psychologists have held that individuals' immutable … identify how different personality traits affect the legislative behavior -- broadly defined -- of members of Congress. We … traits affect their behavior in Congress. Our results are substantively fascinating and a significant contribution to the …

partisan coalition to government initiatives in Congress with the parties'representation of the base in the ministries. These … organizational structure and attributions of the Presidency, precisely at the Civil House, the text discusses how, particularly …'s levels of control on political coordination structures project in the Presidency. It is argued that in some periods, to …