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1 online resource (334 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword: The End of Presidential Power; Introduction: Exploring the Scope of Presidential Power; Part I: The Origins of Constitutionalism; 1. Constitutional Mythology: The Burns-Kendall Debate; The "Two Majorities" Thesis; Deadlock of Democracy; Debating Constitutionalism; Conclusion; 2. Original Intent and the Presidency: Hamilton versus Jefferson; The Hamiltonian President; The Jeffersonian Executive; Conclusion; 3. Jeffersonianism Sustained: Nineteenth-Century Thinkers; Joseph Story; Alexis de Tocqueville |
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Frederick GrimkeGeorge Ticknor Curtis; James Bryce; Henry Clay Lockwood; Conclusion; Part II: Progressivism and Its Critics; 4. Indictment of Constitutionalism: The Progressive Reconstruction; Woodrow Wilson; Henry Jones Ford; Theodore Roosevelt; J. Allen Smith, Charles Beard, and Herbert Croly; Conclusion; 5. Critics of Progressivism: The Early Constitutionalists; William Howard Taft; Calvin Coolidge; Charles C. Thach Jr.; Conclusion; 6. Sowing the Seeds of Progressivism: Liberalism and the Rise of the Heroic Presidency; Harold Laski and Class Politics; Herman Finer and Collective Government |
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Clinton Rossiter and Presidential RolesJames MacGregor Burns's Typology; Richard E. Neustadt and Presidential Influence; Conclusion; 7. Anti-Aggrandizement Scholars: Attacking Liberal Government and Liberal Presidents; C. Perry Patterson; Alfred de Grazia; Edward S. Corwin; Conclusion; 8. From Imperialism to Impotency: Liberal Malaise with Liberal Presidents; Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon; George E. Reedy; James David Barber; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter; The Tethered Presidency; The Illusion of Presidential Government; Carter Revisionism |
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Back to ParliamentarianismCharles M. Hardin; James L. Sundquist; Rexford G. Tugwell; Conclusion; 9. Return to Hamiltonianism: Ronald Reagan and the Movement Conservatives; The Fettered Presidency; The Imperial Congress; Energy in the Executive; Conclusion; 10. Bush, Obama, and Three Presidential Paradigms; Hamiltonianism: A Strong President and Strong but Limited Government; Jeffersonianism: A Weak President and Weak Government; Progressivism: A Strong President and Unlimited Government; Bush, the Hamiltonian; Obama, the Progressive; Part III: The Empirical Presidency |
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11. Plebiscitary Politics, Presidential Leadership, and PersonalityPlebiscitary Politics; The Expectations Gap; Rhetorical Leadership; Going Public; Media Strategies; The Fickle Public; Presidential Leadership; Context for Leadership; Great Presidents; Failed Leadership; Personality; 12. Legislative Leadership, Executive Unilateralism, and the Administrative Presidency; Legislative Leadership; Rational Choice; Agenda-Setting; Executive Unilateralism; Presidential War Prerogative; Critiques of War Prerogative; Domestic Prerogative Power; The Administrative Presidency; Politicized Bureaucracy |
| Summary |
This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present |
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Managerial Presidency |
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Print version record |
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Presidents -- United States -- History
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Political science -- United States -- History
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Political science
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Presidents
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schier, Steven E
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| ISBN |
9781317455189 |
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1317455185 |
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