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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2010.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Presidency and leadership (Unnumbered)
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Temas: | |
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.