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The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) [#165]
The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) [#165]
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  • Stresses the significance of split party control and narrow margins as encouraging greater executive power
  • Emphasizes the high expectations for presidents and the limits imposed by the separation of powers system
  • Adds analysis of electoral campaigns, to include the 2008 economic crisis during the election
  • Incorporates analysis of the recent Obama administration and includes a section on the First Ladies

   
both functional and incapable of devolving into tyranny. To do this, they intentionally decentralized decision making among the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches. They believed this separation of powers would force compromise and achieve their goal of "separating to unify." In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Charles O. Jones delves into the constitutional roots of the American presidency to show how presidents faced the challenges of governing within a system of separation of powers.
  
This updated edition of The American Presidency reviews crucial themes, including democratization of presidential elections, transitioning into and organizing a presidency, challenges in leading the permanent government, making law and policy, and reforming and changing the institution. It also introduces new case studies from the Obama administration, providing compelling insights into contemporary critical issues such as military power, the role of the First Lady, and the new trends in electoral campaigning-including the stunning advances in mass media and campaign technology.
  
Jones lucidly shows that American presidents are not, and simply cannot be, as powerful as most Americans believe them to be. Accordingly, he stresses the necessity to acknowledge the president's political status and style within the constitutional structure: the president is not the presidency, and the presidency is not the government.

Index: 

Preface
1. Inventing the Presidency
2. The Presidency Finds Its Place
3. Electing Presidents (and Other Ways to Occupy the Oval Office)
4. Making and Remaking a Presidency
5. Connecting to and Leading the Government
6. Presidents at Work: Making Law and Doing Policy
7. Reform, Change, and Prospects for the Future
Appendix: Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States of America
References
Index

About the author: 

Charles O. Jones is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. He served as editor of the American Political Science Review and president of the American Political Science Association. He has written many books on various aspects of the American Presidency.

"Jones has a section called "Learning to be president" that offers good advice." --  Ray Smock, Director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education

Product details

ISBN : 9780190458201

Author: 
Charles O. Jones
Pages
208 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Jul 2016
Series
Very Short Introductions
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The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) [#165]

The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) [#165]

The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) [#165]