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This study examines how presidents shape the way people think about political issues. In addition, it explores the limits that political ideology places on presidential action. Tracing the interplay between political philosophy, policymaking, and party politics from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush, the work looks beyond the typical focus on personality and political tactics to the underlying ideological significance of presidential philosophies and actions. It develops new concepts that lend historical and comparative perspective to current debates about the role of government in American society, and it presents a new way of seeing and interpreting the presidency.
Dennis Florig finds that presidential ideologies matter--but not in the way they seem to matter. Ideologies both illuminate and obscure political realities. And while presidential ideologies have had huge impacts on the way both ordinary citizens and policymakers understand the political world, they have also served to mystify the forces that drive decisionmaking, sometimes masking the real face of political power. This important new study will be of interest to scholars in American history, government, and politics.
Sommario
Presidential IdeologiesThe Power of Presidential Ideologies
The U.S. Ideological Spectrum
Change, Continuity, and Contradiction in the U.S. Ideological Spectrum
Ideology in Presidential PoliticsThe Ideological Cross-Pressures on Presidential Administrations and Candidates
Presidents' Ideologies and the Party System
Presidential Ideologies and Public PolicyThe Triumph of the Activist State
The Triumph of the National Security State
The Decline of U.S. Power and the Crisis of the National Security State
Ideological Polarization and the Crisis of the Activist State
Ideology in the Reagan-Bush YearsThe Reagan Restoration
From Reagan to Bush: The Pull of the Political Center
The Chronic Fiscal Crisis
A Brave New World
Presidential Ideologies and the Future of the United StatesPresidential Ideologies in the 1990s
Presidential Ideologies and the Future of the United States
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Dennis Florig
