ISBN: 9780791400913 - The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years (suny Series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues) (7 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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 complicated than the personal deficiencies of a particular person. Such structural limitations, Grover notes, are not merely constitutional but economic and statist. His analogy of the "president as prisoner" in this larger sense is compelling.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Has some minor dirtiness on the outside. There is some slight dirtiness on the textblock/fore edge from handling.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 246 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.