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Presidents on Political Ground - Leaders in Action and What They Face (Paperback)
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Presidents on Political Ground - Leaders in Action and What They Face (Paperback)
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How much power does a president really have? Theories and arguments
abound-pointlessly, Bruce Miroff says, if we don't understand the
context in which presidents operate. Borrowing from Machiavelli,
Miroff maps five fields of political struggle that presidents must
traverse to make any headway: media, powerful economic interests,
political coalitions, the high-risk politics of domestic policy,
and the partisan politics of foreign policy. The prince readying
for war, Machiavelli writes, must "learn the nature of the terrain,
and know how mountains slope, how valleys open, how plains lie, and
understand the nature of rivers and swamps." So it is with
presidents navigating the political landscape. The variability of
political ground, and of the conflicts fought on it, is a core
proposition of this study. The swift collapse of the Soviet Union,
the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the financial crisis of
2008-recent history offers a quick lesson in fortune's role in the
careers of presidents. Taking a historical perspective, which opens
on an array of cases, Miroff explores the various ways in which a
president's agenda is constrained or facilitated by political
conditions on the ground. His book reveals how political identity
is constructed and contested in the media through the ever-changing
presidential spectacle; what happens when Democrats in the White
House tangle with the titans of the economy; why presidents
claiming to represent the entire nation have to manage political
coalitions that direct rewards to their own followers; why domestic
policy has become ""tough terrain"" for presidents; and how
partisan polarization has reshaped presidential leadership in
foreign policy, an area once considered "beyond politics."
Providing a new perspective on why and how presidents succeed or
fail in each of these areas, this book is an indispensable resource
for understanding the forces that shape presidencies and the power
of a president to fight on such fraught terrain.
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