caa a22 4500 388081244 CHVBK 20180307125216.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585399 doi S000305540021736X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585399 Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress, and the Media [Elektronische Daten] Influencing the policy agenda has long been viewed as one of the most important sources of political power. For decades, scholars have maintained that the president has the most significant role in setting the policymaking agenda in Washington, but little systematic empirical work has been done to measure the president's influence. We explore the president's success in focusing the issue attention of Congress and the mass media by evaluating time-series measures of presidential, mass media, and congressional attention to five issues: crime, education, health care, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. We find that most of the time the president reacts, responding primarily to fluctuations in media attention and world events. In domestic policy, we find a more interactive relationship, one that appears to offer the president the opportunity to act in an entrepreneurial fashion to focus the attention of others in the system on major presidential initiatives. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Edwards George C. Texas A&M University Wood B. Dan Texas A&M University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 327-344 0003-0554 93:2<327 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585399 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585399 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Edwards George C. Texas A&M University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wood B. Dan Texas A&M University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 327-344 0003-0554 93:2<327 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge