The provisional pulpit : modern presidential leadership of public opinion /
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| Author / Creator: | Rottinghaus, Brandon, 1977- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xx, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8057734 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Successful leadership in domestic policy
- Nixon implements wage and price controls
- Reagan and the negotiation over the budget
- Clinton and the budget debate
- Unsuccessful leadership in domestic policy
- Kennedy's Medicare proposal
- Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now'
- Reagan 'reforms' social security
- Successful leadership in foreign policy
- Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy
- Carter on the Panama Canal treaties
- Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War
- Unsuccessful leadership in 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, matching statements, and opinion polling
- Appendix B. Case study selection and archival data collection
- Appendix C. Data and models.
