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Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership

Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership


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Millions of Americans--including many experienced politicians--viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White House. They could not understand why he often was unable to leverage his position and political skills to move the public and Congress to support his initiatives. Predicting the Presidency explains why Obama had such difficulty bringing about the change he promised, and challenges the conventional wisdom about presidential leadership. In this incisive book, George Edwards shows how we can ask a few fundamental questions about the context of a presidency--the president's strategic position or opportunity structure--and use the answers to predict a president's success in winning support for his initiatives. If presidential success is largely determined by a president's strategic position, what role does persuasion play? Almost every president finds that a significant segment of the public and his fellow partisans in Congress are predisposed to follow his lead. Others may support the White House out of self-interest. Edwards explores the possibilities of the president exploiting such support, providing a more realistic view of the potential of presidential persuasion. Written by a leading presidential scholar, Predicting the Presidency sheds new light on the limitations and opportunities of presidential leadership.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface xiii Chapter 1 Asking the Right Questions 1 PART I PREDICTING THE PRESIDENCY Chapter 2 Strategic Position with the Public 15 Chapter 3 Strategic Position with Congress 34 Chapter 4 Different Questions, Different Answers 53 PART II EXPLOITING OPPORTUNITIES Chapter 5 Reinforcing Opinion 77 Chapter 6 Exploiting Existing Opinion 107 Chapter 7 Cross-Pressuring Opinion 138 Chapter 8 Reaching the Base 160 Chapter 9 Exploiting Partisans in Congress 183 PART III CONCLUSION Chapter 10 Leadership, Opportunity, and Strategic Assessments 203 Notes 215 Index 255

About the Author :
George C. Edwards III is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University. His many books include Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency and The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership (both Princeton).

Review :
"Edwards' central findings on the limits of presidential persuasion are in my view some of the most important in the literature of American politics. . . . Predicting the Presidency should be widely read."---Paul J. Quirk, Congress & the Presidency


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691170374
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691170371
  • Publisher Date: 22 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 510 gr


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