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The President and His Inner Circle. Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making.
Thomas Preston
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Paperback. Using M. G. Hermann's Personality Assessment-at-a-Distance (PAD) profiling technique as well as exhaustive archival research and interviews with former advisers, the author develops a leadership style typology. He then compares his model's expectations against the actual policy record, using six foreign policy episodes. Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or personalities of candidates have played an increasing role in our assessments of their "fit" for the Oval Office. Further, these same characteristics are often used to explain an administration's success or failure in policy making. Obviously, who the president is-and what he is like-matters. This book, a new approach to ... Read more
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or personalities of candidates have played an increasing role in our assessments of their "fit" for the Oval Office. Further, these same characteristics are often used to explain an administration's success or failure in policy making. Obviously, who the president is-and what he is like-matters. This book, a new approach to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116213
SKU
V9780231116213
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About Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston is assistant professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University.
Reviews for The President and His Inner Circle. Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making.
Preston provides an elaborate typology of presidential leadership styles and choices about the organization of policy advice... His labels are carefully developed and defined, and the classification system as a whole is impressive in its complexity and integrative ambition.
R. A. Strong Choice A thoughtful and incisive work...a workable model for analyzing presidential decisionmaking in both foreign and domestic ... Read more
R. A. Strong Choice A thoughtful and incisive work...a workable model for analyzing presidential decisionmaking in both foreign and domestic ... Read more