What Does the American Presidency Mean? - The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies

What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies makes a compelling case for how interpretivism contributes to our understanding of the American presidency. This brief book is accessible and inviting, regardless of a reader's background in presidency studies or interpretivism.

List of contents

PART I: Two Social Science Methodologies Introduction to the Book and Part I: What Does It Mean to Interpret the Presidency? 1. Characteristics of Interpretive Research 2. Methodological Positivism's History of "Progress" in Presidency Studies 3. "The Interpretable Presidency" Revisited PART II: Interpretive Presidency Research and Its Relevance Introduction to Part II: The American Presidency is Rhetorical/Meaningful 4. How Does the American Presidency Mean? 5. What Does the American Presidency Mean?

About the author

Richard Holtzman is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics, Law, and Society at Bryant University. Holtzman's teaching and research focus on American Politics, and he has published on Presidential Rhetoric and on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Holtzman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781041036814
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103681-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, Political leaders & leadership, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Political leaders and leadership, Research methods: general