The Politics Presidents Make

副标题: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Revised Edition

ISBN: 9780674689374

出版社: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

出版年: 1997-03-25

页数: 576

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.