The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama

This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Barack Obama and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each. Success in bringing about policy change is shown to hinge on the leadership style and skill in managing a variety of institutional and public relationships. The second edition of this timely book adds chapters on George W. Bush and Obama and focuses on the significant domestic policy challenges of their respective times. The authors have reconfigured the analytical framework of the book to take into account the 'dynamic opportunity structure' that emerged during the George W. Bush administration. The Presidency and Domestic Policy provides unique insights into contemporary presidential leadership in a highly partisan age.

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• Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide
• The Politics of the Presidency
• Contending Approaches to the American Presidency
• Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
• Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods
• The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America
• Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs
• The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
• Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods