Presidential Leadership Illness And Decision Making

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139468893

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Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making by Rose McDermott Pdf

Examines the impact of medical and psychological illness on foreign policy decision making. Illness provides specific, predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, time perspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, which systematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this book discusses the ways in which processes related to aging, physical and psychological illness, and addiction influence decision making. This book provides detailed analysis of four cases among the American presidency. Woodrow Wilson's October 1919 stroke affected his behavior during the Senate fight over ratifying the League of Nations. Franklin Roosevelt's severe coronary disease influenced his decisions concerning the conduct of war in the Pacific from 1943–1945 in particular. John Kennedy's illnesses and treatments altered his behavior at the 1961 Vienna conference with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. And Nixon's psychological impairments biased his decisions regarding the covert bombing of Cambodia in 1969–1970.

Author : George C. Edwards III,Kenneth R. Mayer,Stephen J. Wayne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538136096

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Presidential Leadership by George C. Edwards III,Kenneth R. Mayer,Stephen J. Wayne Pdf

PUBLISHING JANURARY 3, 2020! With a focus on presidential leadership, the authors address the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. The authors examine all aspects of the presidency in rich detail, including the president’s powers, presidential history, and the institution of the presidency. Guiding their analysis is their unique contrast between two broad perspectives on the presidency—the constrained president (“facilitator”) and the dominant president (“director”)—making the text a perennial favorite for courses on the presidency. The authors richly illustrate their engaging analysis with timely, fascinating examples. They fully integrate the Trump presidency into every chapter, offering wide-ranging coverage. Moreover, they devote separate chapters to essential aspects of President Trump’s approach to governing such as on media relations, leading the public, and decision making. Equally important, they incorporate the most recent scholarship and their own unique approach to show how the Trump presidency illuminates our basic understanding of the presidency, making Presidential Leadership the perfect vehicle for understanding the president and his impact on the office.

Author : Bert A. Rockman,Richard W. Waterman
Publisher : Roxbury Publishing Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 193322021X

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Presidential Leadership by Bert A. Rockman,Richard W. Waterman Pdf

Author : Bert A. Rockman,Richard W. Waterman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079360668

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Presidential Leadership by Bert A. Rockman,Richard W. Waterman Pdf

A collection of compelling analyses by eminent scholars, Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power looks at presidential leadership from a variety of perspectives, integrating cutting-edge research on both the incentives and the constraints presidents face in their attempts to lead the country. These original readings contextualize presidential leadership in relation to Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and the public. Furthermore, the essays include discussions on executive decision making and both domestic and national security issues.

Author : Theodore C. Sorensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066547210

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Decision-making in the White House by Theodore C. Sorensen Pdf

This book provides a rare view of the most important and far-reading function of Presidential leadership, a detailed account of the making of decisions, from agreement on the facts to final choice to provision for execution, by the one man who can never choose as an individual, but always as a President.

Author : Gautam Mukunda
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520379992

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Picking Presidents by Gautam Mukunda Pdf

"This book synthesizes a new way of understanding leader selection with research from political science, management, psychology, and other fields, to provide an objective, non-partisan way to evaluate Presidential candidates that anyone can use and that requires only information about candidates that would be widely available before the election. It's a system that American citizens can use to answer the most important question they are ever asked: Should this person be President? We begin by identifying what sort of presidential candidates are likely to become Presidents who will make a real difference. Surprisingly, not all Presidents do. Some, despite the awesome power placed in their hands, are surprisingly inconsequential. Then, we'll examine some of the best and worst of the 44 members of history's most exclusive club, which will help us understand what traits are likely to produce failed and successful presidencies, and how to detect them. Next, we'll use this lens to examine Donald Trump, the modern president who has perhaps inflamed the most intense passions on either end of the political spectrum, and Joe Biden, the President as this book goes to print. Finally, I will suggest some plausible reforms to the way we nominate candidates and changes to the powers of the Presidency that might help us improve the quality and performance of future presidents"--

Author : Julian Barling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199757015

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The Science of Leadership by Julian Barling Pdf

Barling takes an evidenced-based approach to his subject, relying primarily on knowledge generated from psychological research on organisational leadership conducted around the world, with some personal reflections from two decades of involvement in leadership research and leadership development with executives.

Author : David Blumenthal,James Morone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520948044

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The Heart of Power, With a New Preface by David Blumenthal,James Morone Pdf

Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a "belly buster" of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality—and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191509353

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Political Leadership by Michael Foley Pdf

Despite its recognized significance in social life, leadership is a notoriously elusive subject that generates a host of different points of explanatory focus. This is particularly so in the field of political leadership, which has been afflicted by an enduring split between the biographical idiosyncrasies of individual leaders and the specialist contributions from an array of social science disciplines. This new study is designed to establish an improved balance between this often myopic and confusing bifurcation of approaches. It engages with an expansive range of empirical, theoretical, and interpretive research into the issue of leadership but does so in a way that ensures that the political character of the subject is kept securely in the foreground. The project is therefore designed to maintain a clear emphasis upon leaders embedded in their political contexts and viscerally connected to high level issues of political location and status, political power and legitimacy, and political functions and contingencies. The book has a cumulative design that moves from an in-depth analysis of the basic components of political leadership to an examination of a series of key dimensions relating to leadership activity and development—namely the themes of representation, communication, marketing, business practice, and the issue of women leaders. It goes on to survey the developmental properties of the international sphere before concluding with a substantive review of the changing landscapes of contemporary leadership activity and the different ways that we come to terms with the theme of political leadership in an increasingly complex world.

Author : Michael A. Genovese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political leadership
ISBN : 1933220791

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Memo to a New President by Michael A. Genovese Pdf

So you've gotten yourself elected president--now what? Help is here in the form of an imaginary memo from your former professor, who integrates the works of the great thinkers (Aristotle, Plato, Machiavelli, etc.) with contemporary scholarship to address the strengths, limitations, and possibilities of presidential leadership. Michael A. Genovese, a highly esteemed presidential scholar, culls numerous nuggets of wisdom about presidential leadership, including past presidents, condensing detailed and academically grounded insights into an engaging and entertaining read. All essential topics are covered, including: presidential character and personality; political institutions and opportunities; power versus leadership; and sources of and limits to presidential power. In-depth coverage of crisis management and wartime decision-making are unique strengths of the book. Chapters are brief and concise, making Memo to a New President far more interesting than supplements such as case studies or documents. Genovese's presentation allows readers to identify with the various constraints on America's chief executive and gives them an opportunity to apply their knowledge and preconceptions (often misconceptions) to the political realities that presidents routinely face. Students are left to grapple with a central question of the book: Is an effective presidency possible without undermining the essence of a democratic republic?

Author : Norrin M. Ripsman,Jeffrey W. Taliaferro,Steven E. Lobell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199899241

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Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics by Norrin M. Ripsman,Jeffrey W. Taliaferro,Steven E. Lobell Pdf

Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach to the study of foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic. Proponents of neoclassical realism claim that it is the logical extension of the Kenneth Waltz's structural realism into the realm of foreign policy. In Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Relations, Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, and Steven E. Lobell argue that neoclassical realism is far more than an extension of Waltz's structural realism or an effort to update the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, E.H. Carr, and Henry Kissinger with the language of modern social science. Rejecting the artificial distinction that Waltz draws between theories of international politics and theories of foreign policy, the authors contend neoclassical realism can explain and predict phenomena ranging from short-term crisis-behavior, to foreign policy, to patterns of grand strategic adjustment by individual states up to long-term patterns of international outcomes. It is, therefore, a more powerful theory of international politics than structural realism. Yet it is also a more intuitively satisfying approach than liberal Innenpolitik theories or constructivism. The authors detail the variables and assumptions of neoclassical realist theory, address various aspects of theory construction and methodology, lay out the areas of convergence and sharp disagreement with other leading theoretical approaches -- liberalism, constructivism, analytic eclecticism, and foreign policy analysis (FPA) --- and demonstrate how neoclassical realist theory can be used to resolve longstanding puzzles and debates in international relations theory.

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501714849

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The Evils of Polygyny by Rose McDermott Pdf

"One powerful structural factor which enforces and replicates patterns of male dominance is the practice of polygyny, which is shown by data to be harmful to women, children, men, and society"--

Author : Kelloway, E. K.,Cooper, Cary
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789905021

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A Research Agenda for Workplace Stress and Wellbeing by Kelloway, E. K.,Cooper, Cary Pdf

This insightful Research Agenda considers the current state of research into workplace stress and wellbeing and maps an innovative programme for future investigation that can advance understanding of the interrelationships between work and wellbeing.

Author : Dominic D. P. Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691210605

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Strategic Instincts by Dominic D. P. Johnson Pdf

"A very timely book."—Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America How cognitive biases can guide good decision making in politics and international relations A widespread assumption in political science and international relations is that cognitive biases—quirks of the brain we all share as human beings—are detrimental and responsible for policy failures, disasters, and wars. In Strategic Instincts, Dominic Johnson challenges this assumption, explaining that these nonrational behaviors can actually support favorable results in international politics and contribute to political and strategic success. By studying past examples, he considers the ways that cognitive biases act as “strategic instincts,” lending a competitive edge in policy decisions, especially under conditions of unpredictability and imperfect information. Drawing from evolutionary theory and behavioral sciences, Johnson looks at three influential cognitive biases—overconfidence, the fundamental attribution error, and in-group/out-group bias. He then examines the advantageous as well as the detrimental effects of these biases through historical case studies of the American Revolution, the Munich Crisis, and the Pacific campaign in World War II. He acknowledges the dark side of biases—when confidence becomes hubris, when attribution errors become paranoia, and when group bias becomes prejudice. Ultimately, Johnson makes a case for a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of cognitive biases and argues that in the complex world of international relations, strategic instincts can, in the right context, guide better performance. Strategic Instincts shows how an evolutionary perspective can offer the crucial next step in bringing psychological insights to bear on foundational questions in international politics.

Author : David Blumenthal,James Morone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520268098

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The Heart of Power by David Blumenthal,James Morone Pdf

Explores how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality--and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the difficult politics of health care.