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The literature on executive influence in Congress has paid little attention to the role of salient constituency interests in presidential support. District‐level data on economic activity is used here to model the effect of this interest on legislators' opposition to the president on foreign trade policy votes where the president's position would be detrimental to constituency groups. The constituency variable has a powerful effect on decision making to oppose the president. The results also reinforce the importance of factors commonly associated with presidential influence, as well as the effect of the partisan and policy contexts.

"This volume celebrates the considerable contributions of Edward Muir to the history of Renaissance Italy and early modern Europe. In keeping with Muir's signature interdisciplinary approach to history, the fifteen essays in this volume include contributions on the ritual dimensions of early modern politics, religion, literature, and art and range from the Venetian and Florentine capitals of Renaissance high culture to Germany, Spain, the Low Countries, and China. Janus-faced, like all good historians, the volume looks forward and back, combining distinguished senior scholars and new voices with venerable debates and new fields. In doing so, the collection testifies to the vibrancy, vitality, and significance of early modern studies today and the degree to which Muir's scholarship over the past thirty years has powerfully fueled the field's dynamism."--