Download or read book Managing the President's Program written by Andrew Rudalevige and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the President's Program: Necessary and Contingent Truths -- Bargaining, Transaction Costs, and Contingent Centralization -- The President's Program: History and Conventional Wisdom -- The President's Program: An Empirical Overview -- Putting Centralization to the Test -- Congress Is a Whiskey Drinker: Centralization and Legislative Success -- The Odds Are with the House: The Limits of Centralization -- Hard Choices.