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- Title
The Historical Presidency Presidential Incentives, Bureaucratic Control, and Party Building in the Republican Era.
- Authors
Rogowski, Jon C.
- Abstract
Though scholars have developed theoretically rich and empirically sophisticated accounts of presidential behavior within the modern era, it is less clear whether these insights shed light on presidents who served in earlier periods of history. In this paper, I sketch an outline of the incentive structures faced by late- nineteenth-century presidents that focuses on their contributions to party building and use county-level data from 1876 to 1896 to show that presidents' core partisan constituencies were disproportionate recipients of federal post offices. While presidential incentives may have differed across history, presidents appeared to be well positioned to act upon them.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL patronage; BUREAUCRACY; UNITED States political parties -- History; POSTAL service; REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ); UNITED States history; PRESIDENTS of the United States; APPOINTMENT to public office; UNITED States politics &; government, 1865-1900; GOVERNMENT policy; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY of political parties
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 4, p796
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12230