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This paper examines President Bush’s actions on stem cell research within the broader scope of changes in the party system. I provide evidence to show that President Bushs actions on stem cell research had an important impact on the public. I show that in this political confrontation with the public, Congress and the Republican leadership in Congress, President Bushs actions sent a clear signal to the Republican Party, which was picked up by rank-and-file Republicans and was translated into their shared policy preference. I argue that, from a party system perspective, when presidents go public they have an important impact on the public. |
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| Cavari, Amnon. "Talking to the Nation, Leading the Party: The Party Politics of President Bush' Actions on Stem Cell Research" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p265993_index.html> |
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| Cavari, A. , 2008-04-03 "Talking to the Nation, Leading the Party: The Party Politics of President Bush' Actions on Stem Cell Research" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2008-12-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p265993_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper examines President Bush’s actions on stem cell research within the broader scope of changes in the party system. I provide evidence to show that President Bushs actions on stem cell research had an important impact on the public. I show that in this political confrontation with the public, Congress and the Republican leadership in Congress, President Bushs actions sent a clear signal to the Republican Party, which was picked up by rank-and-file Republicans and was translated into their shared policy preference. I argue that, from a party system perspective, when presidents go public they have an important impact on the public. |
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| TALKING TO THE NATION LEADING THE PARTY T HE P ARTY P OLITICS OF P RESIDENT B USH ’ S A CTIONS ON S TEM C ELL R ESEARCH Amnon Cavari University of Wisconsin—Madison cavari@polisci.wisc.edu Stem Cell – Draft 07 2 *This is a working paper. Please do not cite without permission.* It seems correct to say that if we identified today the single most “presidential” conception of the office it would likely be a picture of the president speaking to the nation urging action on an important policy or leading the public through a crisis. Indeed presidents repeatedly use speaking as governing (Ellis & Walker 2007; Kernell 1997; Ragsdale 1987; Tulis 1987); they devote much of their time and resources to this task (Kernell 1997; Towle 2004); and they usually draw vast public attention to their speeches. Kernell argues that by “going public” presidents solicit the support of the American people to enhance their chances of success in Washington (Kernell 1997). Yet recent evidence challenges the logic of “going public” when they show little if any effect of presidents’ speeches on public opinion or on presidential legislative success (Edwards 2003; CanesWrone 2006). If these recent accounts are correct and presidents’ speeches have little effect on the public how can one explain why presidents continuously “go public”? This puzzle is realized in President Bush’s actions on stem cell research. President Bush had repeatedly used the microphones to express his objection to stem cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos. Yet despite this effort the public had increasingly approved enabling and supporting such research and Congress perhaps following the public sentiment passed two pieces of legislation (H.R. 810 July 18 2006; and S.3 June 7 2007) that extend federal funding for stem cell research. President Bush reacted by turning to his last resort and vetoed both bills thus ending his long vetoless term. Does this fierce battle only reinforce the assessment that presidents cannot influence public opinion and that going public has little effect on presidential policy success? In this paper I provide evidence to show that President Bush’s actions on stem cell research had an important impact on the public. I show that in this political confrontation with the public Congress and the Republican leadership in Congress President Bush’s actions sent a clear signal to the Republican Party which was picked up by his party rankandfile and was Stem Cell – Draft 07 3 translated into their shared policy preference. I argue that from a party system perspective |
| For more information on the importance of religious attendance as an indicator of religion see Layman 2001 and Layman & Green 2006. 13 Removing the ideology from the models only strengthened my findings. 14 I did not include an indicator for the south because my focus is on national policy rather than voting thus assuming that the issues that arise as a consequence of the littlevariance of southern politics is less relevant to this study. A variable that refers to rural vs. urban was not included because unfortunately the question was not asked in all surveys. 15 For full model estimates see appendix. |
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