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Understanding the Presidency
ISBN: 9780321044938 | 0321044932
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 9/1/1999
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This popular reader is the only comprehensive reader on the American Presidency that is also accessible and engaging for undergraduate students. The editors culled the reading selections with several aims in mind: to include the historical perspective so often neglected in similar texts; to provide developmental views that explain how what happened over the past two centuries got us where we are today; and to present important current issues that are engaging the presidency during the Clinton administration. Some articles are classic scholarly ... MORE
| Preface | vii | ||||
| SECTION 1 Constitutional Origins of the Presidency | 1 | (22) | |||
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| 18 | (5) | |||
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| SECTION 2 Historical Perspectives on the Presidency | 23 | (30) | |||
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| 37 | (4) | |||
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| 41 | (12) | |||
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| SECTION 3 Selecting Presidents: Campaigns, Elections, and Mandates | 53 | (52) | |||
| 58 | (12) | |||
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| 70 | (7) | |||
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| 77 | (14) | |||
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| 91 | (2) | |||
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| 93 | (12) | |||
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| SECTION 4 The Public Presidency: Press, Media, and Public Approval | 105 | (62) | |||
| 109 | (11) | |||
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| 120 | (12) | |||
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| 132 | (10) | |||
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| 142 | (7) | |||
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| 149 | (18) | |||
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| SECTION 5 The Institutional Presidency | 167 | (82) | |||
| 171 | (2) | |||
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| 173 | (20) | |||
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| 193 | (9) | |||
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| 202 | (12) | |||
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| 226 | (15) | |||
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| 241 | (8) | |||
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| SECTION 6 The Separation of Powers | 249 | (66) | |||
| 252 | (12) | |||
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| 264 | (10) | |||
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| 274 | (10) | |||
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| 284 | (15) | |||
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| 299 | (16) | |||
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| SECTION 7 Domestic Policy Leadership | 315 | (58) | |||
| 318 | (7) | |||
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| 325 | (6) | |||
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| 331 | (12) | |||
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| 343 | (14) | |||
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| 357 | (16) | |||
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| SECTION 8 Commander-in-Chief and National Security | 373 | (44) | |||
| 375 | (11) | |||
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| 386 | (11) | |||
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| 397 | (8) | |||
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| 405 | (12) | |||
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| SECTION 9 Evaluating Presidents: Greatness and Abuse of Power | 417 | ||||
| 420 | (19) | |||
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| 443 | (9) | |||
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| 456 | (12) | |||
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| 468 | (8) | |||
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