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Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Cengage Learning THE MODERN PRESIDENCY is a concise accessible and sophisticated text that uses cases to illustrate important. Aspects of presidential action and decision-making. Written by a top scholar on the presidency and thoroughly updated through the summer of 2009 to include the presidency of Barack Obama. the book looks at presidents as individuals and at the large institutions that make up the modern presidency.Contents: 1. The Presidency: Origins and Powers.2. The President and the Public. 3. The White House Staff and Organization. 4. The White House and Executive anch.5. The President and Congress. 6. The President and National Security. 7. Presidential Greatness and Abuse of Power.
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1. The Presidency: Origins and Powers. 2. The President and the Public. 3. The White House Staff and Organization. 4. The White House and Executive Branch. 5. The President and Congress. 6. The President and National Security. 7. Presidential Greatness and Abuse of Power.
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James P. Pfiffner is a University Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He has also taught at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Fullerton. He has written or edited ten books on the presidency, including THE STRATEGIC PRESIDENCY: HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING, 2nd Edition ( 1996) and THE CHARACTER FACTOR: HOW WE JUDGE AMERICA'S PRESIDENTS (2004). He has also published more than 80 articles and book chapters on the presidency, American government, and public management. As an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, he has been a panel member or on project staffs of the National Commission on the Public Service (the Volcker Commission), the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency.
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- PublisherWadworth
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0495909084
- ISBN 13 9780495909088
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number6
- Number of pages304
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