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CONSTITUENCY INTEREST AND CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PRESIDENT ON FOREIGN TRADE ROLL‐CALL VOTING
Author(s) -
Muir Edward
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1998.tb00498.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , salient , political science , presidential system , voting , executive branch , foreign policy , public administration , roll call , position (finance) , political economy , economics , law , legislature , politics , finance
The literature on executive influence in Congress has paid little attention to the role of salient constituency interests in presidential support. District‐level data on economic activity is used here to model the effect of this interest on legislators' opposition to the president on foreign trade policy votes where the president's position would be detrimental to constituency groups. The constituency variable has a powerful effect on decision making to oppose the president. The results also reinforce the importance of factors commonly associated with presidential influence, as well as the effect of the partisan and policy contexts.