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Paperback Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations Book

ISBN: 0742536831

ISBN13: 9780742536838

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

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Well-known scholars and practitioners of Congressional-Presidential relations come together to explore both branches of government and what unites as well as divides them. Highlights include chapters on budgetary politics in a time of deep deficit, the impacts of campaign message and election mandates, veto bargaining, and the making of U.S. foreign policy over four decades. Case studies of budget battles, trade wars, and the war in Iraq lend concrete...

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excellent scientific overview of government relations

James Thurber's "Rivals For Power" is a collection of excellent essays concerning topics found in the relationship between the United States' Congress and office of the Presidency. The text is filled with substantial hypothesis' of the causes of potential relations and uses easy-to-understand scientific methods to illustrate these theories. A must read for any student of American Politics.

Excellent Undergraduate Text

Highly recommend for classroom reading on complex relationship between Congress and President. A must for political science students.
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