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Buchanan, Bruce. "Helping Presidents Set Policy: The Future of Public Influence" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64755_index.html>

Buchanan, B. , 2003-08-27 "Helping Presidents Set Policy: The Future of Public Influence" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64755_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: My concern is with the future of voter policy influence. What, in other words, can increase the frequency of real as opposed to nominal influence? I advocate the explicit cultivation of policy partnerships by presidents with voters through the electoral process (i.e., campaigning on an agenda and asking voters to “mandate” the agenda with their votes). But because the incentives of candidates and new presidents do not always encourage the initiation of such partnerships, and because research shows that presidents by themselves have difficulty building citizen support for a specific policy proposal unless citizens already attach a high priority to the problem it addresses, there is a need for outside help to encourage policy partnerships in non-crisis times. My paper identifies and describes prospective new agents and actions that can a) help develop voter consensus on major national policy problems; b) encourage rival candidate solution-proposals that are responsive to the voter consensus, and c) promote a sustained campaign debate over alternative partisan solutions to such problems. The agents are a non-partisan public interest organization able to authoritatively identify and finance the advertising of top national priorities (e.g. health care and Social Security reform) independently of candidates and parties, and a separate survey research operation that periodically monitors and reports on the effects of the nonpartisan consensus building effort as well as on the state of public support for each of the alternative partisan solutions.

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