George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Agenda
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https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2008.29.0.351-369Abstract
The president’s domestic policy agenda is the starting point for the yearly give-and-take between presidents and Congress. It also reflects the president’s efforts to achieve good public policy, reelection, and historical achievement. This paper extends research that has explored the president’s domestic policy agenda to the George W. Bush Administration by cataloging the size, length, and importance of Bush’s yearly domestic policy agenda priorities. Supplemented with three case studies on education, social security, and charitable choice policies, this paper demonstrates the necessity of moving fast and having public support to explaining the content and ultimate success of George W. Bush’s yearly legislative domestic policy agendas.References
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