Presidential-Legislative Relations and Presidential Scandal
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2009-05-05
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Virginia Tech
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Studies on Presidential-Executive relations fails to empirically analyze whether or not modern presidential scandal can impact presidential-congressional relations. Meinke and Anderson (2001) find that presidential scandal impacts House of Representatives voting behavior on key votes cited by Congressional Quarterly. A slight revision and replication of Meinke and Anderson's research finds presidential scandal impacts Senate aggregate key votes reported by Congressional Quarterly. In addition, political party plays a more important role than scandal in determining the logged odds of Senate key votes and presidential agreement.
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Presidential-Congressional Relations, Presidential Scandal, Congress, United States President, United States Congress, Executive Branch, U.S. Senate, Scandal, Legislative Branch, Presidency, Executive-Legislative Relations