"An excellent introduction for students to the key theories and approaches political scientists use to study the presidency."
-Bryan McQuide, Grand View University
Written by top-notch presidency scholars and carefully edited into a text-reader format, The Presidency and the Political System, Eleventh Edition showcases a collection of original essays focused on a range of topics, institutions, and issues relevant to understanding the American presidency. Author Michael Nelson rigorously edits each contribution to present students with a set of analytical yet accessible chapters and contextual headnotes introducing each essay. Students will read about different approaches to studying the presidency, the elements of presidential power, presidential selection, presidents and politics, and presidents and government. The highly anticipated Eleventh Edition of this text fully incorporates coverage of Obama's second term and the major shifts represented by the new Trump administration.
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"An excellent introduction for students to the key theories and approaches political scientists use to study the presidency." -- Bryan McQuide "Successfully balances both historical and political science perspectives on the growth and current operation of the presidency." -- Ashley Moraguez "The Presidency and the Political System will challenge students to raise their analytical abilities, while providing them with new insights for thinking about the contemporary presidency." -- Scott Spitzer
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-5443-1729-8 (9781544317298)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, his most recent books include Trump's First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition. His 2014 book, Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award.
Preface
Contributors
PART I APPROACHES TO THE PRESIDENCY
Chapter 1. The Two Constitutional Presidencies - Jeffrey K. Tulis
Chapter 2. Studying the Presidency: Why Presidents Need Political Scientists - Lyn Ragsdale
PART II ELEMENTS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Chapter 3. The Development of Presidential Power: Conservative Insurgency and Constitutional Construction - Stephen Skowronek
Chapter 4. The Presidency in History: Leading from the Eye of the Storm - Sidney M. Milkis and Marc Landy
Chapter 5. Presidential Competence - Paul J. Quirk
Chapter 6. The Psychological Presidency - Michael Nelson
PART III PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION
Chapter 7. The Presidency and the Nominating Process: Aspirants, Parties, and Selections - Lara M. Brown
Chapter 8. The Faulty Premises of the Electoral College - George C. Edwards III
PART IV PRESIDENTS AND POLITICS
Chapter 9. The Presidential Spectacle - Bruce Miroff
Chapter 10. The President and the Media: The Case of Donald Trump - Marjorie Randon Hershey
Chapter 11. The Presidency and Interest Groups: Allies, Adversaries, and Policy Leadership - Daniel J. Tichenor
Chapter 12. The Presidency and Political Parties - Sidney M. Milkis
PART V PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENT
Chapter 13. The Institutional Presidency - John P. Burke
Chapter 14. The Presidency and the Bureaucracy: The Levers of Presidential Control - David E. Lewis and Terry M. Moe
Chapter 15. The President and Congress - Matthew J. Dickinson
Chapter 16. The Presidency and the Judiciary - David A. Yalof
Chapter 17. The Presidency and Unilateral Power: A Taxonomy - Andrew Rudalevige
PART VI PRESIDENTS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter 18. Presidential Power and Public Policy - Roger B. Porter
Chapter 19. The Presidency at War: The Limits of Agency in Wartime Presidential Leadership - Andrew J. Polsky
Chapter 20. "The Firing, Retiring, and Expiring of Presidents": Impeachment, Disability, Resignation, and Death-From the Constitutional Convention to Donald Trump - Michael Nelson
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