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The provisional pulpit : modern presidential leadership of public opinion /

"Recent research has described how broadly difficult it is for presidents to lead public opinion and thereby push through government policy changes they seek. Marshalling a comprehensive set of data and reporting new archival evidence, The Provisional Pulpit is an impressive piece of scholarshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rottinghaus, Brandon, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Presidency and leadership (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Questions and quandaries of presidential leadership
  • The constrained presidency: a conditional theory of presidential leadership
  • Presidential (non- ) leadership of public opinion
  • Successful presidential leadership of public opinion
  • Case studies of successful leadership (domestic policy)
  • Nixon implements wage and price controls
  • Reagan and the negotiation over the budget
  • Clinton and the budget debate
  • Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (domestic policy)
  • Kennedy's Medicare proposal
  • Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now'
  • Reagan 'reforms' social security
  • Case studies of successful leadership (foreign policy)
  • Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy
  • Carter on the Panama Canal treaties
  • Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War
  • Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (foreign policy)
  • Nixon (temporarily) escalates Vietnam
  • Reagan presses for 'contra' funding
  • Clinton withdraws from Somalia
  • Implications for leadership and the public presidency
  • Epilogue: Presidents 43 and 44
  • Appendix A. Case selection and matching statements and opinion polling
  • Appendix B. Case study selection and archival data collection
  • Appendix C. Models and data.