The Policy Partnership: Presidential Elections and American Democracy

by Bruce Buchanan

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9780415947602
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Routledge
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Politics & Government
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PAPERBACK
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152
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2004

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The presidency was neither designed nor expected to act in concert with the American people; the framers intended Congress to represent the popular will. Contemporary presidents are elected on the promise of being the direct representative of the people. There is an implicit deal between the president and voters: election to office in return for responsiveness to voter concerns. As The Policy Partnership shows, this relationship has been crumbling for some time. Presidents frequently break campaign promises and make unpopular decisions, while the public rarely bands together to demand attention to policy concerns. Many people simply do not vote; political elites take advantage of this indifference to advance their own agendas. Bruce Buchanan explores the presidential elections of the last half-century to answer pressing questions created by this situation: What has become of the policy relationship potential created by presidential elections? To what degree do candidates and presidents take voter policy concerns into account before and after elections? How much influence do voters really have on presidential policy? What can be done to increase voter participation and presidential responsiveness? The central question of democratic politics comes down to the relationship between popular electoral choices and public policy: if voters can't influence what government does, then what is the point of democracy?
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Bruce Buchanan is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published extensively on presidential and national politics, and is the editor of The State of the Presidency (2002). He is also the author of Presidential Campaign Quality (2004).

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