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Presidential Power

Columbia University Press, 2000

Richard Neustadt's seminal work Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership has endured for nearly four decades as the core of academic study of the American presidency. Now, building on and challenging many of the arguments in Neustadt's work, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century offers reflections and implications from what we have learned about presidential power as the new century dawns. These ...

Research in Micropolitics: New Directions in Political Psychology : 1994 (Research in Micropolitics)
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Leonie Huddy

Jai Pr, 1994

The essays in this volume are designed to contribute to the study of electoral behaviour by providing a broad coverage and panoramic view of the electoral literature in the US, identifying trends in electoral behaviour and offering observations on electoral politics.

The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (American Politics and Political ...
Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930's to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, ...

Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Studies in ...

3 reviews
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro

University Of Chicago Press, 2000

Terrific: Explores Link Betwn Public Opinion & Politicians
This is a wide-ranging, theoretically rich and empirically focused look at whether politicians simply "follow" the polls or whether politicians use polls to help "sell" proposals to the public. The answer is both, of course, but Jacobs and Shapiro explain how and why public leaders develop their own policy views, and how the public's acceptance of those views shape how policies are ultimately ...

Public Opinion

1 review
Carroll J. Glynn, Susan Herbst, ...

Westview Press, 2004

Goes beyond public opinion and into social constructs
I read the book for the first time as a student of public opinion in Singapore where the issue, because of government policies, is very restricted and controlled. The book gives the reader the possibility to comprehend public opinion from a wide range of topics (form political to historical, sociological and even psychological). It provides with plenty of examples, theories and studies done by ...

Decisionmaking in a Glass House
Pierangelo Isernia, Robert Y. Shapiro

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000

As we enter the new century, how and to what extent will the new realities of the post-Cold War world, as well as advances in communication technology, influence news reporting, public attitudes, and, most of all, foreign policy decisions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean? In this volume, American and European scholars examine change and continuity in these important aspects of the foreign policy process at the beginning of the 21st century.