Matthew Beckman, University of California, Irvine associate professor of polical science, studies Washington politics, particularly those involving the White House. He is an expert on the presidency, congress, interest groups, mass media & politics. He is author of “Pushing the Agenda” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which reveals the systematic strategies presidents employ to influence Congress and the factors that determine when those strategies work – or don’t.

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