Going Local - Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey E. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the author of 11 books and monographs - including The Presidency in an Era of 24-Hour News - and more than 50 journal articles. Professor Cohen's areas of interest focus on American politics, especially the presidency and public policy. Klappentext Going Local demonstrates the effectiveness of targeted presidential appeals and provides us with a refined understanding of the nature of presidential leadership. Zusammenfassung Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that presidents have adapted their going-public activities to reflect the current realities of polarized parties and fragmented media. Going Local demonstrates the effectiveness of targeted presidential appeals and provides us with a refined understanding of the nature of presidential leadership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Presidential leadership styles; 2. Increasing presidential attention to narrow groups; 3. Presidents and the local news media; 4. A theory of presidential news management and local news coverage; 5. The quantity of local newspaper coverage of the president; 6. Trends in local newspaper coverage of the presidency, 1990-2007; 7. On the tone of local presidential news; 8. Local presidential news coverage and public attitudes toward the president; 9. Conclusions: presidential leadership in the post-broadcast age.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Jeffrey E. (Fordham University Cohen, Cohen Jeffrey E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521141437
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14143-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, Political leaders and leadership, Political structures / systems: democracy