""Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of U.S. presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in this formulation, is strictly about bargaining and convincing other political actors to do things the president cannot …
by Jacobs, Lawrence R., Shapiro, Robert Y., Kumar, Martha Joynt
fromPower, conflict, and democracy
A collection of essays that reevaluates Richard Neustadt's place in presidential studies and shows that, while Neustadt's classic work remains a beacon for the study of the presidency, it no longer offers a reliable roadmap embodying the consensus among contemporary scholars.
Richard Neustadt's seminal work Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership has endured for nearly four decades as the core of academic study of the American presidency. Now, building on and challenging many of the arguments in Neustadt's wo.
Argues that America has been transformed into a surveillance state with an increasing loss of personal freedoms and traces this decline through history, beginning with colonial rule all the way to the current war on terrorism. --Publisher's description.
Argues that America has been transformed into a surveillance state with an increasing loss of personal freedoms and traces this decline through history, beginning with colonial rule all the way to the current war on terrorism. --Publisher's description.
The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government—the executive, the legislative, and the judicial–but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative force a…
"The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government (the executive, the legislative, and the judicial) but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative forc…
"The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government--the executive, the legislative, and the judicial-but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative force…
"Mainstream media would have us to believe that The Deep State is only as old as the Obama Administration. However, it has presented itself in many forms throughout our nation's history. Both Democrat and Republican Presidents alike have been involved in this 242-year-old conspi…
"When engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade, and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen? Does the United States rely too much o…
When engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade, and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen? Does the United States rely too much on…
