Abstract
It is unclear how increased activity and stress during reelection campaigns affects president's ability to maintain typical productivity. The hypothesis tested in this research posits that they increase demands, which in turn forces bargaining and compromises on the president's time and attention to the extent that productivity decreases across certain executive actions. However, evaluating how these vary over president's time in office suggests quite the opposite; across multiple presidencies, the executive is consistently more productive during the year before Election Day in the amount of legislation signed and the number of signing statements. This holds true for both political parties and across differing levels of unity between Congress and the president.
How to Cite
Britt, A. L., (2015) “Presidential Productivity and the Race for Reelection”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 28(1).
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