Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> American Government - Executive Branch

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act came into existence at a time when the president's ability to lead the public was in question, political polarization had intensified, and the media environment appeared ever more fragmented, fast-moving, and resistant to control. Under such circumstances, how can contemporary American presidents such as Barack Obama build and maintain support for themselves and their policies, particularly as controversies arise?

Using case studies of major contests over how key elements of the Affordable Care Act would be framed, and analysis of how...

Popular perception holds that presidents act "first and alone," resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off unfavorable legislation. Little research, however, has considered the diverse circumstances in which such orders are issued. The Dual Executive reinterprets how and when presidents use unilateral power by illuminating the dual roles of the president. Drawing from an original data set of over 5,000 executive orders and proclamations (the two most frequently used unilateral orders) from the Franklin D. Roosevelt to the George W. Bush administrations...

To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race--all pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divide--and to the historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed event.

Resilient America captures this...

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Donald Trump's victory is a movement against the establishment and in Hired that movement is best explained.

"Just as Brexiteers mobilized a people's army, so too has Mr. Trump mobilized the people in the United States. Brexit is a story of a grassroots campaign, of putting on one's walking boots on, delivering leaflets, and going out to meet people in their communities. The same way that Donald J. Trump mobilized people in the United States" (from the Afterword by Nigel Farage).

On the night of November 8, for hours millions of...