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THE COALJTIONAL PRESIDENCY
Lester G Seligman
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CaryR Covington
University of Iowa
The Dorsey Press
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Contents
List of Figures and Tables x
Prologue The Evolving State of the Presidency /
PARTONE
Basic Propositions 5
1 Electoral and Governing Coalitions in the Presidency 7
Definitions 8
Coalitions 8
Translation Process 12
The General Argument 13
Nixon's Family Assistance Plan and His Electoral
Core Coalition 16
Winning Office in 1968 17
Governing on Welfare Policy 19
Conclusions about Divergent Coalitions and the Demise
ofFAP 24
PART TWO
Emerging Dual Legitimations 27
2 Progressivism and the Present Crisis of the Presidency 29
The Presidential Paradox 30
The Emergence of Presidential Governance 30
Electoral and Governing Coalitions: Emerging Incongruence 32
Progressivism and the Roots of the Presidential Paradox • 33
The Doctrines of Progressivism 33
Critiquing Progressivism as a Theory of Governance 37
FDR and the Institutionalization of Progressivism 41
Progressivism and the Presidency: The Emergence of
Dual Legitimations 44
va
viii Contents
3 Building Electoral Coalitions: Trends and Consequences 46
Phases of the Presidential Selection Process 47
The First Phase 1800-1824: Nomination by Congressional Caucus 47
The Second Phase 1824-1903: Nomination by State Party Leaders 48
The Third Phase 1903-1936: The Introduction of Direct Primaries 48
The Fourth Phase 1936-Present: Emergence of Candidate-Based
Campaigns 50
Recent Developments in Presidential Selection 52
The Emergence of Television 52
Personal Candidate Organizations 52
The Decline of Partisanship 53
The New Reforms in Presidential Selection 54
Interest Groups 57
The Impact of Recent Trends on Electoral Coalition Building 59
Consequences of Electoral Changes on the President in
Office 60
The President and the Party 60
The Presidency and Interest Groups 62
The White House as Presidential Party 63
Conclusions 67
PART THREE
Coalitions and Presidential Governance 69
4 Congressional Relations 71
The Origins of the President's Role as Legislative Leader 72
Early Antecedents 72
Initiation of the Legislative Role 74
Institutionalization of the Legislative Role 75
Emerging Barriers to Presidential Legislative Leadership 78
The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Member of Congress 78
The Separation of Presidential from Congressional Coalitions 79
Changes in the Structure of Congress 80
Presidential Response: The Office of Congressional Relations 84
Historical Development of the OCR 84
Structure and Function of the OCR in Coalition Building 86
Congressional Coalition-Building: The Panama Canal Treaty 88
Substantive Background 89
Coalitional Incongruence 89
Presidential Activity 90
Conclusions 92
Contents ix
5 Building Support among the Public and Interest Groups 93
The Evolving Relationship between the President and the
Public 93
Traditional Character of the Relationship 93
Recent Developments 94
Sources of Change in the President's Relation to the Public 95
Fragmentation of Political Authority 96
Deinsulation of Washington from Public Pressures 98
Basis of Legitimacy for Presidential Leadership 99
Presidential Adaptations to the Increased Importance of
the Public 100
Strategic Adaptations 100
Structural Adaptations: The Presidential Party 103
Conclusions 105
6 Building Bureaucratic Coalitions 107
Recent Developments in Presidential Leadership of
Bureaucracy 108
The Executive Branch Agencies 109
Historical Development of the Executive Branch 109
Agency Autonomy: Barrier to Presidential Influence 110
Presidential Strategies for Coping with Agency
Autonomy 111
Presidential Executive Branch Appointments 112
Historical Development of the Appointment Process 113
Appointees' Roles in Coalition Building 114
Limits on Presidential Uses of Appointees 115
Appointments to Presidential Staff Agencies 118
Historical Development of the Organizational Presidency 119
Coalition-Building Roles for Presidential Aides 121
Limits on the Use of Presidential Staff Units 123
Conclusions 127
7 The Reagan Presidency: Trend or Anomaly? 128
The Long-Term Prospects for Coalitional Divergence: The Impact
of the Reagan Presidency 129
Overview: Electoral Coalitions 129
Overview: Governing Coalitions 134
The Character and Consequences of Reagan Governance: Two
Case Studies 136
The Character of Reagan's Governance: The 1986 Tax
Reform Bill 136
A Narrative Summary 136
x Contents
Coalitional Insights 138
The Consequences of Reagan's Governance: The Iran-Contra
Affair 141
A Narrative Summary 142
Coalitional Implications 144
8 Presidential Coalitions: Accountability, Performance, and
the Future 150
Accountability versus Performance: The Impact of Coalitional
Divergence 150
The Relationship between Accountability and Performance 150
Historical Trends 151
The Effects of Coalitional Divergence 153
What Does the Future Hold for the Presidency? 158
Charismatic Leadership 158
Crisis Governance 159
Using Charisma and Crisis as Strategy 160
Concluding Remarks: The Founding Fathers' Last Laugh? 161
Appendix Further Research on Presidential Influence 163
Bibliography 174
Index 185
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
Figure 1-1 Structural Features of Coalitions 10
Figure 1-2 Translating Electoral into Governing Coalitions 12
Figure 3-1 Organizational Units of the White House Office 65
Figure 3-2 Organizational Unit of the Executive Office of the
President 66
Table 6-1 Growth in the White House Office and the Executive
Office of the President (Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald
Reagan) 121
Table 7-1 Partisanship Trends in the Electorate 131
Figure A-l Situational Determinants of Decision Making 170 |
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