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Author(s): Jones, Charles O
ISBN(s): 9780815747178, 0815747179
Edition: Second edition
File Details: PDF, 1.65 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0815747179

ISBN 13: 9780815747178

Author: Charles O Jones

Popular interpretations of American government tend to center on the presidency. Successes and failures of government are often attributed to presidents themselves. But, though the White House stands as a powerful symbol of government, the United States has a separated system intentionally designed to distribute power, not to concentrate it. Charles O. Jones explains that focusing exclusively on the presidency can lead to a seriously distorted picture of how the national government works. The role of the president varies widely, depending on his resources, advantages, and strategic position. Public expectations often far exceed the president’s personal, political, institutional, or constitutional capacities for achievement. Jones explores how presidents find their place in the permanent government and how they are “fitted in” by others, most notably those on Capitol Hill. This book shows how a separated system of government works under the circumstances created by the Constitution and encouraged by a two-party system. Jones examines the organizational challenges facing presidents, their public standing and what it means, presidential agendas and mandates, and lawmaking—how it works, where the president fits in, and how it varies from issue to issue. He compares the post-World War II presidents and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each in working within the separated system. Jones proposes a view of government as a legitimate, even productive, form of decisionmaking and emphasizes the varying strategies available to presidents for governing. He concludes with a number of important lessons for presidents and advice on how to make the separated system work better.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Presidency
Landslides, No Slides, and Presidential Power
Pictures in Our Heads
The Dominant Perspective: Unitarianism and Party Government
Variations in Party Splits
Variations in Presidential Advantages
An Alternative Perspective: Separationism and a Government of Parties
The Neustadt Formulation
The Politics of Partisan Variations
Change within Presidencies
Chapter 2. Presidents and the Presidency
How They Come to Be There
Standing on Entering Office
Who They Are
Governing Incentives
Chapter 3. Organizing to Govern in the Separated System
The Presidential Branch
Cabinet Secretaries: Reaching Within
Organizational Experience of Postwar Presidencies
Organizing and Adapting
Chapter 4. Public Standing of the President
The Most Popular Presidents
Approval Ratings and the Diffusion of Responsibility
Going Public
The Public Standing of Postwar Presidents
Public Approval and the Work of Government
Chapter 5. Presidents, Mandates, and Agendas
Elections and Agendas in the Constitution
The Mandate
Judgments about Mandates
The Continuing Agenda
Agenda-Related Concepts
Postwar Presidents and the Agenda
Summary
Chapter 6. Presidents and Lawmaking in a Separated System
The Nature of Lawmaking
Presidential Success with Congress
Legislative Production: What Gets Done and When
Legislative Time Lines
Summary
Chapter 7. Making Laws
Presidential Preponderance
Congressional Preponderance
Joint Participation
Sequence, Speculation, Iteration, and Partisanship
Applying the Lessons to Clinton and Bush 43
Chapter 8. Thinking about Change
Presidents and the Presidency
Reform and Change
Lessons for Presidents
The Presidency in a Separated System

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