TY - BOOK ID - 80817372 TI - The power of American governors : winning on budgets and losing on policy AU - Kousser, Thad AU - Phillips, Justin H. PY - 2012 SN - 9781139135542 9781107022249 9781107611177 9781139569170 1139569171 1139135546 9781139572736 1139572733 110702224X 1107611172 1316089851 113957955X 1139570986 1107254507 1283637677 1139570072 PB - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Governors KW - Executive power KW - Legislative power KW - Veto KW - Political leadership KW - Leadership KW - Constitutional law KW - Power, Legislative KW - Implied powers (Constitutional law) KW - Judicial review KW - Separation of powers KW - Powers and duties. KW - States. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80817372 AB - With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data. Thad Kousser and Justin H. Phillips argue that negotiations over the budget, on the one hand, and policy bills on the other are driven by fundamentally different dynamics. They capture these dynamics in models informed by interviews with gubernatorial advisors, cabinet members, press secretaries and governors themselves. Through a series of novel empirical analyses and rich case studies, the authors demonstrate that governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but that what they're bargaining over - the budget or policy - shapes both how they play the game and how often they can win it. ER -