TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kousser,Thad
AU  - Phillips,Justin H.
TI  - The Power of American Governors: Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy 
SN  - 9781139135542 (ebook)
AV  - JK2447 .K68 2012
U1  - 352.23/52130973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135542
ER  -