The President And The Parties

Author : Marty Cohen,David Karol,Hans Noel,John Zaller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226112381

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The Party Decides by Marty Cohen,David Karol,Hans Noel,John Zaller Pdf

Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.

Author : Sidney M. Milkis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195066200

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The President and the Parties by Sidney M. Milkis Pdf

The President and the Parties is the first book to examine closely the association between the chief executive and the two-party system. It traces the evolution of the president-party relationship and its implication for American Democracy since the New Deal - from FDR's 1938 "Purge" of the Democratic Party to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to the celebration of executive centralization during the Reagan "Revolution". Milkis argues that reforms intended to liberate the chief executive from the shackles of partisan politics only weakened an already fragile relationship, isolating presidents from what was once popular and institutional support from their parties. By providing a unique perspective on the history and development of American government, Milkis offers new insights into the decline of the party system and the process that fashioned a stronger, more active national state, but one lacking in representative institutions capable of common deliberation and choice. Placing the issue in contemporary perspective, he warns of the challenges ahead for a nation struggling to repair its frayed connection between government and people.

Author : Gary C. Jacobson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226589343

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Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind by Gary C. Jacobson Pdf

How is Donald Trump’s presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party? Profoundly, according to Gary C. Jacobson. From Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, every postwar president has powerfully shaped Americans’ feelings, positive or negative, about their party. The effect is pervasive, influencing the parties’ reputations for competence, their perceived principles, and their appeal as objects of personal identification. It is also enduring, as presidents’ successes and failures continue to influence how we see their parties well beyond their time in office. With Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind, Gary C. Jacobson draws on survey data from the past seven administrations to show that the expansion of the executive branch in the twentieth century that gave presidents a greater role in national government also gave them an enlarged public presence, magnifying their role as the parties’ public voice and face. As American politics has become increasingly nationalized and president-centered over the past few decades, the president’s responsibility for the party’s image and status has continued to increase dramatically. Jacobson concludes by looking at the most recent presidents’ effects on our growing partisan polarization, analyzing Obama’s contribution to this process and speculating about Trump’s potential for amplifying the widening demographic and cultural divide.

Author : Brian Abrams
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761184225

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Party Like a President by Brian Abrams Pdf

There’s the office: President of the United States. And then there’s the man in the office—prone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nation’s leaders, humor writer Brian Abrams offers a compelling, hilarious, and true American history on the rocks—a Washington-to-Obama, vice-by-vice chronicle of how the presidents like to party. From explicit love letters to slurred speeches to nude swims at Bing Crosby’s house, reputations are ruined and secrets bared. George Washington brokered the end of the? American Revolution over glasses of Madeira. Ulysses S. Grant rarely drew a sober breath when he was leading the North to victory. And it wasn’t all liquor. Some presidents preferred their drugs—Nixon was a pill-popper. And others chased women instead—both ?the professorial Woodrow Wilson (who signed his love letters “Tiger”) and the good ol’ boy Bill Clinton, though neither could hold a candle to Kennedy, who also received the infamous Dr. Feelgood’s “vitamin” injections of pure amphetamine. Illustrated throughout with infographics (James Garfield’s attempts at circumnavigating the temperance movement), comic strips (George Bush Sr.’s infamous televised vomiting incident), caricatures, and fake archival documents, the book has the smart, funny feel of Mad magazine meets The Colbert Report. Plus, it includes recipes for 44 cocktails inspired by each chapter’s partier-in-chief.

Author : James W. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313280078

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The President as Party Leader by James W. Davis Pdf

In spite of all that has been written on the U.S. presidency, no book before this has come forth in the 20th century on the president as party leader. A respected senior scholar, James W. Davis has studied the presidency for more than 40 years and has been on the campaign trail with candidates and incumbents and at national party meetings. He has written a lively text that is tailor-made for courses on the presidency, political parties, and elections. This is good reading for everyone who is interested in American government and politics and who wants to understand what makes a president a strong leader. This history and political analysis shows how presidents and political parties need each other and demonstrates why presidents must understand and be immersed in the political process to be effective. The text examines the emergence of the party leader through nominating and general election campaigns, presidential and congressional party interaction, eras of divided government, as well as the relationship between the president and the party's national committee. It also presents the role of the presidential party and of the president in his public roles and then discusses reforms that may strengthen the president as an executive and as a party leader.

Author : Julia Sherman
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781647004736

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Arty Parties by Julia Sherman Pdf

In her follow-up cookbook to Salad for President, cook, writer, and artist Julia Sherman shows us how to apply an artist’s touch to our own home gatherings. Artists throw superior parties, and we can learn from their willingness to draw outside the lines, choose character over perfection, and find boundless joy in feeding family and friends. Cook, live, and host like an artist with inspired, easy recipes and playful hands-on experiments in the kitchen. Sherman shows you how to be the architect of your own uniquely memorable bash, whether that means a special breakfast for two, or a “choose your own adventure” meal that’s flexible enough to feed a crowd. Forget the codified markers of good taste—Arty Parties instead reveals that modern gatherings are less about “getting it right” and more about getting your hands dirty, building community, and taking risks in the kitchen and beyond. Featuring colorful food that is confident in its simplicity, Sherman shares easy-to-follow, healthy recipes that value imaginative flavor combinations over complexity: dishes like an avocado-lemongrass panna cotta, saffron tomato soup, coconut rice cakes with smashed avocado and soy-marinated eggs, and roasted broccolini and blood oranges with a creamy pepita sauce. This book also invites readers into the idiosyncratic gatherings of internationally acclaimed artists, from a chic office party in a Parisian art book publisher's atelier to an underground earth oven pizza party on a secluded hillside in Los Angeles. Woven throughout are Sherman’s own homegrown events that are relatable yet wonderfully experimental in tone. Utterly unique and beautifully designed, Arty Parties is a guide to creating meaningful experiences that nourish both the host and their guests in body, mind, and soul.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political parties
ISBN : UCSC:32106014499500

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The President, the Public, and the Parties by Anonim Pdf

A continued examination of the President's relationship with the public, from public opinion cycles to news media to interest groups.

Author : Julia R. Azari,Lara M. Brown,Zim G. Nwokora
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438445991

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The Presidential Leadership Dilemma by Julia R. Azari,Lara M. Brown,Zim G. Nwokora Pdf

Examines how the president balances the competing demands of leading his political party and leading the nation.

Author : Michael J. Korzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political leadership
ISBN : 1558494502

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A Seat of Popular Leadership by Michael J. Korzi Pdf

A study of the relationship between presidential leadership and public opinion, this book challenges the commonly held view that the American presidency did not become a truly popular institution until the early twentieth century. According to Michael J. Korzi, the democratization of the presidency can be traced back to the antebellum period, when broadly based political parties first emerged. With the development of nominating conventions, party platforms, and party patronage, presidents became bound up in a system of collective leadership anchored in the political party and beholden to a diverse and decentralized, but clearly powerful, public. Presidents were expected to act as partisans, cooperating with their fellow party members in the legislature to make good on the party's promises and to ensure victory at the polls. After the Civil War, this party-based model of presidential leadership gradually gave way to a new paradigm--the modern rhetorical presidency--marked by the establishment of a more direct relationship between the president and the people. The result was an institution at once more responsive to the vicissitudes of public opinion and less constrained by the obligations of partisan politics. Although he acknowledges the need for a strong executive in today's global world, Korzi sees problems in the ascendancy of this new form of presidential leadership and suggests that a partial return to the party model would be a welcome development. A modern presidency tempered and restrained by political parties, he argues, not only would restore a measure of constitutional balance but also would offer a more full-bodied relationship between president and public.

Author : Amnon Cavari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107150034

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The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric by Amnon Cavari Pdf

This book develops a theory of presidential public leadership taking into account the partisan nature of the political debate and the role of presidents.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290433747

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Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States by George Washington Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Lewis O. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 133118228X

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The Presidents and Their Administrations by Lewis O. Thompson Pdf

Excerpt from The Presidents and Their Administrations: A Hand-Book of Political Parties, for Every Voter In the preparation of this work, the writer has had in view to present in brief and compact form, the leading issues of our political history as a Nation, and place within the reach of every voter the facts, statistics, and important events which are not generally accessible, except to those who have entrance to public libraries, or who have been able to secure a political library of their own. The reader will find each Administration, from the inauguration of Washington, in 1789, to the present time, treated by itself, and the leading occurrences chronologically grouped. A few preliminary pages are presented to illustrate the origin and growth of government in the colonies, and to set forth by the defects of the Articles of Confederation the necessity for a new Instrument. There will be found, in their proper places, the Cabinets of the Presidents; the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court; the Speakers of each Congress; the names of all the candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, with the number of votes, popular and electoral, that each received; the population of the United States every decade; the number of Representatives by ratio; the public debt for each year; the important measures which claimed and divided public attention; the conventions of political parties and the platforms they have adopted; a brief sketch of political parties and their principles; together with such other items as relate to the conduct of public affairs in a great and growing commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Peter M. Siavelis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271042451

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President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile by Peter M. Siavelis Pdf

As many formerly authoritarian regimes have been replaced by democratic governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, questions have arisen about the stability and durability of these new governments. One concern has to do with the institutional arrangements for governing bequeathed to the new democratic regimes by their authoritarian predecessors and with the related issue of whether presidential or parliamentary systems work better for the consolidation of democracy. In this book, Peter Siavelis takes a close look at the important case of Chile, which had a long tradition of successful legislative resolution of conflict but was left by the Pinochet regime with a changed institutional framework that greatly strengthened the presidency at the expense of the legislature. Weakening of the legislature combined with an exclusionary electoral system, Siavelis argues, undermines the ability of Chile's National Congress to play its former role as an arena of accommodation, creating serious obstacles to interbranch cooperation and, ultimately, democratic governability. Unlike other studies that contrast presidential and parliamentary systems in the large, Siavelis examines a variety of factors, including socioeconomic conditions and characteristics of political parties, that affect whether or not one of these systems will operate more or less successfully at any given time. He also offers proposals for institutional reform that could mitigate the harm he expects the current political structure to produce.

Author : Daniel Galvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691136920

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Presidential Party Building by Daniel Galvin Pdf

Modern presidents are usually depicted as party "predators" who neglect their parties, exploit them for personal advantage, or undercut their organizational capacities. Challenging this view, Presidential Party Building demonstrates that every Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower worked to build his party into a more durable political organization while every Democratic president refused to do the same. Yet whether they supported their party or stood in its way, each president contributed to the distinctive organizational trajectories taken by the two parties in the modern era. Unearthing new archival evidence, Daniel Galvin reveals that Republican presidents responded to their party's minority status by building its capacities to mobilize voters, recruit candidates, train activists, provide campaign services, and raise funds. From Eisenhower's "Modern Republicanism" to Richard Nixon's "New Majority" to George W. Bush's hopes for a partisan realignment, Republican presidents saw party building as a means of forging a new political majority in their image. Though they usually met with little success, their efforts made important contributions to the GOP's cumulative organizational development. Democratic presidents, in contrast, were primarily interested in exploiting the majority they inherited, not in building a new one. Until their majority disappeared during Bill Clinton's presidency, Democratic presidents eschewed party building and expressed indifference to the long-term effects of their actions. Bringing these dynamics into sharp relief, Presidential Party Building offers profound new insights into presidential behavior, party organizational change, and modern American political development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Political parties
ISBN : NYPL:33433078709965

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National Party Platforms by Anonim Pdf