Akash Sama­roo

The first year of a gov­ern­ment’s term is wide­ly con­sid­ered its “hon­ey­moon pe­ri­od,” mak­ing the leg­isla­tive agen­da es­tab­lished dur­ing this time a crit­i­cal de­ter­mi­nant of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s long-term vi­a­bil­i­ty and cred­i­bil­i­ty.

This ini­tial win­dow rep­re­sents the peak of a gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal cap­i­tal. Hav­ing just se­cured a man­date, the ex­ec­u­tive typ­i­cal­ly faces a pub­lic that is more re­cep­tive to ma­jor struc­tur­al changes.