The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years Tapa blanda - 1989

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989-07-14. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear; This book focuses, not on the Constitutional balance of power between Congress and the White House--a focus that restricts analysis to questions of means--but on the more unsettling and often unexamined question of the ends of the presidency and American public policy. It offers a "structural theory" which links what a president can do to the underlying interests behind--and ideology of--the capitalist state. Structural theory insists upon an encounter between theories of the state and theories of the presidency, and in so doing steers the field of presidential studies into largely uncharted territory.Grover explores the tradeoffs and limitations encountered by Presidents Carter and Reagan as they pursued the goals of economic prosperity and national security. He argues that the limitations imposed on the presidency are more… Leer más

State University of New York Press, 1989. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

State University of New York Press, 1989. Paperback. New. 246 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.