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This study incorporates three important themes into the study of presidential selection:What are the international implications of how the Unites States chooses its presidents? How does the process affect other nations? Does it enhance or diminish the ability of the United States to deal effectively with the rest of the world?
How do the changing characteristics of the the presidential selection process affect the shaping of public policies, and vice versa? For example, how have changes in citizen participation, campaign technologies, and campaign finance laws altered the balance of political power among institutions and interests?
What is the influence of the Constitution on presidential selection, as in the prescribed qualifications for the office and in provisions for unusual circumstances?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix
Introduction
1. Change and Stability in Choosing Presidents / Alexander Heard and Michael Nelson 1
I. Presidential Selection in World Context
2. Presidential Selection and Continuity in Foreign Policy / Ralf Dahrendorf 15
3. Changing International Stakes in Presidential Selection / Ernest R. May 32
4. Learning to Govern or Learning to Campaign / Richard Rose 53
II. Voters and Candidates
5. The Linkage of Policy to Participation / Gary Orren 75
6. Who Vies for President? / Michael Nelson 120
7. Methods and Actors: The Relationship of Processes to Candidates / John H. Aldrich 155
III. New Campaign Elites
8. Public Opinion Polling: Command and Control in Presidential Campaigns / James R. Beniger and Robert J. Giuffra Jr. 189
9. The Three Campaigns for President / Herb Asher 216
10. Regulating Campaign Finances: Consequences for Interests and Institutions / Xandra Kayden 247
IV. Presidential Politics and the Mass Media
11. Presidential Politics and the Myth of Conciliation: The Case of 1980 / James David Barber 283
12. Television and Presidential Politics / Thomas E. Patterson 302
V. Provisions for the Unexpected
13. Presidential Selection and Succession in Special Situations / Allan P. Sindler 331
Notes 366
Index 397
Editors and Contributors 411
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alexander Heard and Michael Nelson, eds.
