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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458088803321

Autore

Rottinghaus Brandon <1977->

Titolo

The provisional pulpit [[electronic resource] ] : modern presidential leadership of public opinion / / Brandon Rottinghaus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-60344-359-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership

Disciplina

352.23/60973

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Public opinion

Political leadership - United States

Communication in politics - United States

Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Political aspects - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 20th century

United States Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.