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Autore: | Burton Guy |
Titolo: | Presidential leadership in the Americas since independence / / Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina: | 352.23/6097 |
Soggetto topico: | Executive power - Latin America - History |
Executive power - United States - History | |
Political leadership - Latin America - History | |
Political leadership - United States - History | |
Presidents - Latin America - History | |
Presidents - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Politics and government |
United States Politics and government | |
Persona (resp. second.): | GoertzelTed George |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Making sense of presidential leadership -- Identifying the outstanding leaders of the Americas -- Historical eras and political regimes in eight American republics -- Leadership in the wars of independence and their aftermath -- Presidential leadership and national consolidation -- Presidential leadership in the era of state development -- Presidential leadership in the era of neoliberal globalization -- Conclusion : the transformational presidents of the Americas. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Using a comparative history approach, Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence analyzes the presidents and their ability to bring change to their polities, societies, and economies across four different periods: during and after independence; during national consolidation in the nineteenth century; the expansion of the state in the twentieth century; and the turn towards neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Presidential leadership in the Americas since independence |
ISBN: | 1-4985-2657-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823935403321 |
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