1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910895188303321

Titolo

Journal of sustainable development studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

澳洲, : INFINITY PRESS

Edgecliff, NSW, : InfinityPress, 2012-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

330

333.7

300

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911002590603321

Autore

Ainsworth Scott H

Titolo

Strategic Responsiveness : How Congress Confronts Presidential Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

0-472-90501-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages)

Collana

Legislative Politics and Policy Making Series

Altri autori (Persone)

HarwardBrian M

MoffettKenneth W

Disciplina

328.3/456

Soggetti

Executive-legislative relations - United States

Separation of powers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Since the constitutional separation of powers often leads to delay or



obstruction rather than coordinated policymaking, U.S. presidents are increasingly acting unilaterally to move policy. With the issuance of executive orders, signing statements, and policy memoranda, unilateralism has become a defining feature of the American presidency. Can Congress effectively use checks and balances to counter presidential unilateralism?  Strategic Responsiveness takes a theoretically developed and empirically oriented approach-- situated within legal and historical contexts--to explore the system of separated powers. The authors find that Congress is not as weak as many perceive it to be and show how members of Congress can often anticipate individualized policy loss and choose to respond. These policy struggles shape the constitutional order as surely as broad, statutory constraints might. While the aggrandizement of the presidency and the usurpation of congressional control are not countered, ordinary policy losses are. For members and senators, presidential overreach is fine as long as the policy wins keep occurring, but policy losses may motivate members to reassert congressional prerogatives in policymaking through increased oversight. Strategic Responsiveness reveals how profoundly important policy-level disputes are in the politics of maintaining a particular constitutional order.