THE POLITICS PRESIDENTS MAKE by Stephen Skowronek ( 9780674689374 )

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Title:

THE POLITICS PRESIDENTS MAKE
LEADERSHIP FROM JOHN ADAMS TO BILL CLINTON

By:

Stephen Skowronek

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0674689372

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9780674689374

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 March, 1997

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

576

Description:

This study aims to demonstrate that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. The politics of the "third way" is also discussed in relation to Bill Clinton's political strategies.

Synopsis:

Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. In an afterword to this new edition, the author examines "third way" leadership as it has been practiced by Bill Clinton and others. These leaders are neither great repudiators nor orthodox innovators. They challenge received political categories, mix seemingly antithetical doctrines, and often take their opponents' issues as their own. As the 1996 election confirmed, third way leadership has great electoral appeal. The question is whether Clinton in his second term will escape the convulsive end so often associated with the type.

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Imprint:

The Belknap Press

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Returnable

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