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Return to Spender: The Electoral Connection’s Effect on Veto Challenges and Overrides

  • Dave Bridge

    Dave Bridge is an Assistant Professor of political science at Baylor University. His research focuses on institutions in American political development.

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Abstract

This paper uses assumptions about position taking and credit claiming to help predict when Congress will challenge and override a presidential veto. Using assumptions about position taking and credit claiming to generate measurable hypotheses, I find that vetoes on spending bills are 13.0 percentage points more likely to be challenged and 13.1 percentage points more likely to be overridden. Furthermore, spending vetoes are more likely to be overridden when congressional elections are nearing. The results confirm that the electoral connection not only explains individual behavior, but can also help predict institutional outcomes.


Corresponding author: Dave Bridge, Department of Political Science, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97276, Waco, TX, 76798, USA, e-mail:

About the author

Dave Bridge

Dave Bridge is an Assistant Professor of political science at Baylor University. His research focuses on institutions in American political development.

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