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Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.

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This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Can...

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Presidential Communication is the first book to combine a study of the presidency with communications.

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This book examines democracy, governance, and social justice in Cte dIvoire by analyzing the political effects of the 20112012 presidential conflict. Okosun explains driving factors that caused this conflict through an examination of the social and historical context surrounding the political battle between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.

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Kuypers employs a new historical/critical approach to analyze both the press and the Clinton administration's handling of three international crisis situations. Using case studies of Bosnia, Haiti, and the alleged North Korean nuclear buildup in 1993, he examines contemporary presidential crisis communication and the functions of the press.

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Presidential Decision Making and Military Intervention in the PostCold War Era analyzes eight case studies of presidential decision making and military intervention and non intervention since the end of the Cold War.

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This book demonstrates that the Founders did not intend to confer on the president a power equivalent to the royal prerogative of suspending the laws, which was stripped from the English Crown in 1689.

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A guide to the strategies of candidates and political parties during American presidential election campaigns. The authors identify the important factors that determine the American political environment and examine the importance of primaries and the role of public financing and debates.

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In the past several decades, the country has seen some incumbent presidents win second terms by margins previously believed to be unattainable, yet has witnessed defeats of more incumbents than at any time in our national history.

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The American presidency is the single most important political office in the United States, but it is also a complex institution that scholars and the general public still do not fully understand.

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Examines the administrative tools and techniques that US presidents have used to influence environmental policy and legislation through the years. A major portion of the book assesses current techniques and recent administrations, particularly the Reagan, Carter and Bush strategies.

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This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States.

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Using a comparative history approach, this book analyzes presidents and their ability to change their polities, societies, and economies across four periods: during and after independence; during national consolidation in the 19th century; the expansion of the state in the 20th century; and the turn to neoliberal globalization since the 1980s.

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An evaluation of presidential efforts to achieve greater control over policy implementation by intransigent federal bureaucracies.

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The French Fifth Republic Presidency has emerged as a powerful executive in western society. This book is a study of how that was possible and of the way in which the power of the Presidency was created and maintained.

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The French Fifth Republic Presidency has emerged as a powerful executive in western society. This book is a study of how that was possible and of the way in which the power of the Presidency was created and maintained.

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Explores the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency in America. This study focuses on the nature and impact of "momentum" in the contemporary nominating system. It examines the consequences of some proposed alternatives to the nominating process, including a regional primary system and a one-day national primary.

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Examining the development of the process of presidential selection, this book contends that many of the major purposes of the selection system as it was formerly understood have been ignored by reformers and modern scholars. It identifies a set of criteria for a selection system and analyzes and evaluates the changes in the selection process.

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Each year billions of dollars are diverted by the President and his assistants from the purposes for which Congress intended them. Billions more are used in confidential and covert ways, without the knowledge of Congress and the public. Here is the first account of how this money is actually spent. Louis Fisher writes: "When it comes to the admini