The Institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92

Ragsdale, Lyn; Theis, John

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“…The authors argue that of the three chief dimensions of institutional development, differentiation refers to the distinctiveness of the court's identity and mission from its surrounding political environment; durability depends on the court's capability to adapt to changes in its environment; autonomy reflects the relationship between judicial capabilities to make independent decisions and external pressures. Bumin et al argue that incremental increases in the court's autonomy, durability, and differentiation levels are reflected in the rising overall level of judicial institutionalization (also see Polsby, 1968;Keohane, 1969;Ragsdale & Theis, 1997;McGuire, 2004). The development of each dimension is important on its own right because each contributes differently to the development of a viable constitutional court (i.e., they tap into different qualities of a viable institution in ways exclusive to each dimension).…”

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Judicial Institutionalization and Business Elite Trust in the Post-Communist Courts

Bumin¹

2015

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The existing survey research in post-communist societies focuses disproportionately on the mass citizenry and largely ignores questions about elite support for judicial institutions. This study examines business elite's confidence in the post-communist legal systems and assesses the effects of judicial institutionalization on their perceptions. It argues that as post-communist constitutional courts develop, their institutionalization helps generate positive elite perceptions of the country's legal system. This study tests hypotheses regarding business elite confidence in the legal system with the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey data. The results show that the level of constitutional court institutionalization is an important determinant of business elite's perceptions of the legal system. During the 1999-2005 period, businesspersons in countries with highly institutionalized constitutional courts are on average 23.5% more likely to express high level of confidence in their legal systems relative to businesspersons in countries where constitutional courts are weakly institutionalized.

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Section: Constitutional Court (Cc) Viabilitymentioning

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Judicial Institutionalization and Business Elite Trust in the Post-Communist Courts

Bumin¹

2015

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“…The expanded scope of direct presidential jurisdiction has been explained as the joint outcome of environmental pressures for increasing government activity, congressional action in response to those pressures, and particular presidential initiatives to seize control over specific policymaking areas (Ragsdale and Theis, 1997). But such increasing complexity within the presidential center also appears to have pressured presidents into concentrating the control of decision-making in their own office in detriment of the very agencies established within the EOP.…”

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“…One is partisan turnover: when the governing party is ousted, most of the presidential staff is also changed. Another is the duration of organizational units within the presidency-which, though increasing since the 1950s, has varied considerably from one year to another, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1970s (Ragsdale and Theis 1997). A third explanation is administrative overhaul, which has been frequent in the twentieth century (Arnold, 1998).…”

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“…As noted by Campbell (2005: p. 254 The creation of new departments was overwhelmingly due to Democratic presidents-who also created the largest number of inter-departmental councils, boards, and task forces (Ragsdale and Theis, 1997: pp. 1292-1295-although the latter two departments mentioned above were created during Republican administrations.…”

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“…Organizational studies have concentrated on the survival of organizational units and on variations in presidents' use of those units within decision-making processes (Porter, 1980;Burke and Greenstein, 1989;Ragsdale and Theis, 1997), whereas interactional analyses have stressed the turnover of each adviser type (Link, 2002). Network stability has been explained from the organizational perspective as the outcome of presidents' managerial styles: turnover would be high under competitive styles (Dickinson, 1997) and less so under collegial styles-though staff shifting to different functions in the policy process may also yield high turnover in these cases (Ponder, 2000).…”

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The Presidency and the Executive Branch in Latin America: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Bonvecchi

Scartascini

2011

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in 1 Abstract *The presidential politics literature depicts presidents either as all-powerful actors or figureheads and seeks to explain outcomes accordingly. The president and the executive branch are nonetheless usually treated as black boxes, particularly in developing countries, even though the presidency has evolved into an extremely complex branch of government.

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Carson¹,

Owens²

2015

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The goal of this essay is to present foundational and cutting‐edge research that has influenced how researchers study the lawmaking process within American politics. By assessing the most influential research on legislative politics to date, we are able to highlight the research that is moving the discipline forward. Specifically, we focus not only on the outcomes produced by the lawmaking process but also the institutional influences that shape what ultimately becomes law. Our discussion outlines how institutional rules and procedural context are important considerations in determining how legislative chambers and the executive interact to govern and create new laws. This is especially important as the polarization among the public and political elites continues to grow and reflects fluctuations in party divisions during the past century. These changes in the political context of each institution have created challenges in the lawmaking process, necessitating new and unorthodox procedures to deal with these difficulties as they arise. We also provide guidance in discussing new questions, which have not yet been fully addressed by scholars to date, as well as where to look for new sources of data that will help researchers begin to find answers to those questions. We believe that expanding upon existing research agendas will provide greater opportunities to learn more about the important role of both chambers and the executive in designing and implementing legislation.

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The Institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92

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Judicial Institutionalization and Business Elite Trust in the Post-Communist Courts

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