02853nam 22004813 450 991100259060332120250514080314.00-472-90501-5(CKB)38429097600041(MiAaPQ)EBC32077176(Au-PeEL)EBL32077176(EXLCZ)993842909760004120250514d2025 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStrategic Responsiveness How Congress Confronts Presidential Power1st ed.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2025.©2025.1 online resource (215 pages)Legislative Politics and Policy Making Series0-472-07741-4 0-472-05741-3 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.Legislative Politics and Policy Making SeriesExecutive-legislative relationsUnited StatesSeparation of powersUnited StatesExecutive-legislative relationsSeparation of powers328.3/456Ainsworth Scott H1819599Harward Brian M1819600Moffett Kenneth W1628357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911002590603321Strategic Responsiveness4379986UNINA