B. Dan Wood

The Myth of Presidential Representation

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Produktbeschreibung

The Myth of Presidential Representation evaluates the nature of American presidential representation, questioning the commonly held belief that presidents represent the community at large.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780521133425
• ISBN-10: 0521133424
• Artikelnr.: 26571680

Autorenporträt

B. Dan Wood holds the Cornerstone Fellowship at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric (2007) and coauthor of Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy (1994), as well as numerous scholarly articles. Professor Wood has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, and American Politics Quarterly and is a frequent instructor at the European Consortium for Political Research summer methods program at the University of Essex.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The nature of presidential representation
2. The centrist and partisan theories of presidential representation
3. Measuring mass preferences and presidential issue stances
4. Evaluating the centrist vs. partisan models of presidential representation
5. Presidential persuasion and the mass public
6. Centrism, partisanship, and public approval of the president's job performance
7. The efficacy for American democracy of non-centrist, partisan presidential representation.