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Book Synopsis The Performative Presidency by : Jason L. Mast
Download or read book The Performative Presidency written by Jason L. Mast and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton and details how the relations between these spheres have changed over time. Jason Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, public and media are organized in a theatrical way and argues that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an increasing role in structuring the political arena. He shows politics as a process of ongoing performances staged by motivated political actors, mediated by critics and interpreted by audiences, in the context of a deeply rooted, widely shared system of collective representations. The interdisciplinary framework of this book brings together a semiotic theory of culture with concepts from the burgeoning field of performance studies"--
Book Synopsis The Performative Presidency by : Jason L. Mast
Download or read book The Performative Presidency written by Jason L. Mast and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural analysis of 1990s politics in the US, detailing the rise of performance oriented politics during Clinton's presidency.
Book Synopsis Presidential Personality And Performance by : Alexander L George
Download or read book Presidential Personality And Performance written by Alexander L George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which examines the leadership styles and decisionmaking practices of presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton, reflects the authors interest for over half a century in the impact of personality on the political behavior of our political leaders. Its contents range from the story of the Georges collaboration on their pioneering stud
Book Synopsis The Presidential Expectations Gap by : Richard Waterman
Download or read book The Presidential Expectations Gap written by Richard Waterman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, public expectations of U.S. presidents have become increasingly excessive and unreasonable. Despite much anecdotal evidence, few scholars have attempted to test the expectations gap thesis empirically. This is the first systematic study to prove the existence of the expectations gap and to identify the factors that contribute to the public’s disappointment in a given president. Using data from five original surveys, the authors confirm that the expectations gap is manifest in public opinion. It leads to lower approval ratings, lowers the chance that a president will be reelected, and even contributes to the success of the political party that does not hold the White House in congressional midterm elections. This study provides important insights not only on the American presidency and public opinion, but also on citizens’ trust in government.
Book Synopsis The Reagan Presidency by : Wilbur Edel
Download or read book The Reagan Presidency written by Wilbur Edel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers Reagan to be "the biggest fraud ever to occupy the White House"--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Presidential Character by : James David Barber
Download or read book The Presidential Character written by James David Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James David Barber's well-known, provocative examination of who has the potential to be voted into the highest office in the land - and why - is being reissued as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Arguing that patterns in a person's character, world view, and style can allow us to anticipate their performance as president, The Presidential Character offers explanations and predictions of the performance of presidents and presidential candidates. Drawing on historical, biographical, and psychological research, Dr. Barber hoped to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country's highest leaders. Revisiting this classic work in today's important presidential election season begs a reconsideration of Barber's probing and enduring query, "What should we look for in a president?"
Book Synopsis Presidential Leadership by : George C. Edwards
Download or read book Presidential Leadership written by George C. Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text on the American presidency analyzes the institution and the presidents who hold the office through the key lens of leadership. Edwards, Mayer, and Wayne explain the leadership dilemma presidents face and their institutional, political, and personal capacities to meet it. Two models of presidential leadership help us understand the institution: one in which a strong president dominates the political environment as a director of change, and another in which the president performs a more limited role as facilitator of change. Each model provides an insightful perspectives to better understand leadership in the modern presidency and to evaluate the performance of individual presidents. With no simple formula for presidential success, and no partisan perspective driving the analysis, the authors help us understand that presidents and citizens alike must understand the nature of presidential leadership in a pluralistic system in which separate institutions share powers. This fully revised thirteenth edition is fully updated through the Biden administration, with recent policy developments, the 2022 midterm elections, changes to the media environment, and the latest data.
Book Synopsis The Presidential Dilemma by : Michael Genovese
Download or read book The Presidential Dilemma written by Michael Genovese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush, finding that, overall, each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the top presidency scholars today, The Presidential Dilemma reflects on the idea that as our country's problems grow, our politicians seem to shrink. Arguing that American presidents of the last 40 years have largely failed to meet the needs, expectations, and responsibilities placed upon them, the book discusses how presidents might better maximize their opportunities for leadership and suggests a distinctive theory of presidential politics: presidents, facing a system of multiple veto points, seek to maximize power and influence.The third edition of Genovese's stimulating book is thoroughly updated to reflect presidential development in recent years, and a new introduction brings his arguments current. As he demonstrates, the emergence of democracy as a new social and political paradigm undermined traditional authority and legitimacy. Subjects no longer automatically follow; now citizens must be persuaded. They may give to a leader their authority and power, or not. As Genovese notes, in a world of mass consumerism, those wishing to lead have precious little to offer by way of inducement.Genovese's goal is to examine the reasons why the performance of recent presidents has been underwhelming, discuss how they might maximize their opportunities for leadership, and ask a key question: Can presidents be both powerful and accountable? The book follows a clear format and tries to show why America's officeholders have so rarely been leaders and how presidents can become leaders instead of mere officeholders.
Book Synopsis Presidential Libraries as Performance by : Jodi Kanter
Download or read book Presidential Libraries as Performance written by Jodi Kanter and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes presidential libraries as performances that encourage visitors to think in particular ways about executive leadership and about their own roles in public life. Kanter demonstrates how the presidential libraries generate normative narratives about individual presidents, historical events, and what it means to be an American. --From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Film and the American Presidency by : Jeff Menne
Download or read book Film and the American Presidency written by Jeff Menne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics—Hollywood and the presidency—and argue that not only did Hollywood acting become an idiom for presidential style, but that Hollywood early on understood its own identity through the presidency’s peculiar mix of national epic and unified protagonist. Additionally, they contend that studios often made their films to sway political outcomes; that the performance of presidential personae has been constrained by the kinds of bodies (for so long, white and male) that have occupied the office, such that presidential embodiment obscures the body politic; and that Hollywood and the presidency may finally be nothing more than two privileged figures of media-age power.
Book Synopsis Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars by : Alexander Hiland
Download or read book Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars written by Alexander Hiland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars: The Sovereign Presidency argues that the War on Terror provided an opportunity to fundamentally change the presidency. Alexander Hiland analyzes the documents used to exercise presidential powers, including executive orders, signing statements, and presidential policy directives. Treating these documents as genres of speech-act that are ideologically motivated, Hiland provides a rhetorical criticism that illuminates the values and political convictions at play in these documents. This book reveals how both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama wielded the personal power of the office to dramatically expand the power of the executive branch. During the War on Terror, the presidency shifted from an imperial form that avoided checks and balances, to a sovereign presidency where the executive branch had the ability to decide whether those checks and balances existed. As a result, Hiland argues that this shift to the sovereign presidency enabled the violation of human rights, myriad policy mistakes, and the degradation of democracy within the United States.
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Book Synopsis Performance, Theatricality and the Us Presidency by : Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Theatre and Performance Julia Peetz
Download or read book Performance, Theatricality and the Us Presidency written by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Theatre and Performance Julia Peetz and published by . This book was released on 2025-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring features of populist-style politics through the lens of distrust
Book Synopsis The Presidents of American Fiction by : Michael J. Blouin
Download or read book The Presidents of American Fiction written by Michael J. Blouin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.
Book Synopsis The Presidential Character by : James David Barber
Download or read book The Presidential Character written by James David Barber and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First edition published by Prentice Hall, Inc. 1972. Fourth edition published by Routledge 2009"--T.p. verso.
Book Synopsis Assessing the President by : Richard Brody
Download or read book Assessing the President written by Richard Brody and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do presidents inevitably lose support the longer they are in office? Does the public invariably rally behind presidents during international crises? What are the criteria by which the public forms its judgment about whether or not the president is doing a good job? And what is the role of daily news reporting and elite opinion in shaping the public's perception of the president's performance? This book addresses these questions and many others surrounding the dynamics of fluctuating public support for the president of the United States. Drawing its case material from the modern presidency from Kennedy through Reagan, with looks backward as far as Truman, this innovative work shows how the standing of the president with the American people has come to have a political life of its own. The author first examines two seemingly distinctive periods of opinion formation: the 'honeymoon' at the beginning of a presidential term and the 'rally' of presidential support that accompanies international crises. He then analyzes two previous explanations of public support - length of term in office and the state of the economy - and concludes that these explanations are, respectively, incorrect and incomplete. The author presents a model of information processing that ties public support to indications of policy success or failure brought to the attention of the public through daily news reporting by the media. The model is tested initially for the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford; it is then refined and tested further for the Carter and Reagan presidencies.
Book Synopsis The President and Foreign Affairs by : Ryan J. Barilleaux
Download or read book The President and Foreign Affairs written by Ryan J. Barilleaux and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new way to evaluate presidential performance by identifying the current standards--and examining them in the light of historical experience. The author describes and discusses the conventional wisdom (synthesized from the standards of the general public, commentators and scholars) on evaluating presidential performance and examines its efficacy through six case studies of presidential performance in foreign affairs. Finally, in looking at the lessons of the case studies he shows how they reveal significant flaws in presidential evaluation and foreign policy making and suggests changes.
Book Synopsis Presidential Transitions by : John P. Burke
Download or read book Presidential Transitions written by John P. Burke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burke's detailed and comprehensive account of the four presidential transitions from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton explores how each president-elect prepared to take office and carefully links those preparations to the performance and effectiveness of the new administration. Enriched by interviews with the key participants, this sobering tale of the difficulties that new presidents have encountered demonstrates the importance of well-organized and well-managed transitions to successful terms in office.
