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Julia R. Azari - Delivering the People´s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate - 9780801452246 - V9780801452246
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Delivering the People´s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate

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Description for Delivering the People´s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.

Presidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive power. In Delivering the People’s Message, Julia R. Azari draws on an original dataset of more than 1,500 presidential communications, as well as primary documents from six presidential libraries, to systematically examine choices made by presidents ranging from Herbert Hoover in 1928 to Barack Obama during his 2008 election. Azari argues that Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 marked a shift from the modern presidency formed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to what she identifies as a more partisan era for the presidency. This partisan model is a form of ... Read more

Azari finds that when the presidency enjoys high public esteem and party polarization is low, mandate rhetoric is less frequent and employs broad themes. By contrast, presidents turn to mandate rhetoric when the office loses legitimacy, as in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam and during periods of intense polarization. In the twenty-first century, these two factors have converged. As a result, presidents rely on mandate rhetoric to defend their choices to supporters and critics alike, simultaneously creating unrealistic expectations about the electoral promises they will be able to fulfill.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452246
SKU
V9780801452246
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About Julia R. Azari
Julia R. Azari is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. She is coeditor of The Presidential Leadership Dilemma: Between the Constitution and a Political Party.

Reviews for Delivering the People´s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate
By evaluating Republicans and Democrats in each chapter Azari ensures that attention is not on party or personality but on the presidency.... Thus Azari's work exemplifies the strengths of what she terms presidency studies, a scholarly venture that is interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, that employs diverse methods of inquiry, and that advances news that merits attention. This is an excellent book. ... Read more

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