03074nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10411779 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090831s2010 txua sb 001 0 eng c 2009036379 9781603441872 (hc : alk. paper) 9781603441957 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)680622506 n-us--- JK516 .R67 2010eb 352.23/60973 22 Rottinghaus, Brandon, 1977- The provisional pulpit [electronic resource] : modern presidential leadership of public opinion / Brandon Rottinghaus. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2010. xx, 318 p. : ill. Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index. Questions and quandaries of presidential leadership -- The constrained presidency: a conditional theory of presidential leadership -- Presidential (non-) leadership of public opinion -- Successful presidential leadership of public opinion -- Case studies of successful leadership (domestic policy) -- Nixon implements wage and price controls -- Reagan and the negotiation over the budget -- Clinton and the budget debate -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (domestic policy) -- Kennedy's Medicare proposal -- Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now' -- Reagan 'reforms' social security -- Case studies of successful leadership (foreign policy) -- Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy -- Carter on the Panama Canal treaties -- Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (foreign policy) -- Nixon (temporarily) escalates Vietnam -- Reagan presses for 'contra' funding -- Clinton withdraws from Somalia -- Implications for leadership and the public presidency -- Epilogue: Presidents 43 and 44 -- Appendix A. Case selection and matching statements and opinion polling -- Appendix B. Case study selection and archival data collection -- Appendix C. Models and data. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Presidents United States Public opinion Case studies. Political leadership United States Case studies. Communication in politics United States Case studies. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects United States Case studies. United States Politics and government 20th century. United States Politics and government 21st century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Presidency and leadership (Unnumbered) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10411779 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 181951 181951