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B. Dan Wood - Presidential Saber Rattling, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Presidential Saber Rattling

Causes and Consequences

Av B. Dan Wood

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Beskrivning
The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-interest, rather than community interest. This book investigates whether past presidents acted as noble statesmen or were driven by such self-interested motivations as re-election, passion, partisanship, media frenzy and increasing domestic support. The book also examines the consequences for the nation of presidential behavior driven by self-interest. Between 1945 and 2008, presidents issued 4,269 threats to nineteen different countries. Professor B. Dan Wood evaluates the causes and consequences of these threats, revealing the nature of presidential foreign policy representation and its consistency with the founding fathers' intentions.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-08-27
  • Mått: 155 x 234 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 400 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 203
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107021273
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B. Dan Wood is Professor and Director of the American Politics Program at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Myth of Presidential Representation (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric (2007) and co-author of Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy (1994).

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'Students of the presidency have given immense attention to presidential public rhetoric and presidents going public, but rarely have studied a president's foreign policy rhetoric. B. Dan Wood, one of our most respected presidency scholars, does so in Presidential Saber Rattling. Not only does Wood develop the concept of presidential saber rattling, but he meticulously collects and analyzes more than 50 years of such presidential rhetoric. And he reminds us that saber rattling is an important form of presidential policy making. [This book] is destined to become a classic and to stimulate future research.' Jeffrey E. Cohen, author of The President's Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789–2002

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