Michael Nelson (1)
Autor/a de The Presidency and the Political System
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Sobre l'autor
Michael Nelson teaches courses on U.S. politics, the presidency, and the Constitutional Convention at Rhodes College. In addition, he participates in the college's humanities course: The Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion. Before coming to Rhodes in 1991, he taught at mostra'n més Vanderbilt University for thirteen years and was editor of Washington Monthly. His most recent books are Debating the Presidency, 2nd ed. (with Richard J. Ellis); The Elections of 2008; The Evolving Presidency, 3rd ed.; The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th ed. (with Sidney M. Milkis); Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation (with John Lyman Mason); and Celebrating the Humanities: A Half Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College. mostra'n menys
Obres de Michael Nelson
The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th Edition (American Presidency (CQ)) (2008) 28 exemplars
The Evolving Presidency: Addresses, Cases, Essays, Letters, Reports, Resolutions, Transcripts, and Other Landmark… (2004) 18 exemplars
The Evolving Presidency: Addresses, Cases, Essays, Letters, Reports, Resolutions, Transcripts, and Other Landmark… (1999) 14 exemplars
Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government (American Presidential… (2014) 13 exemplars
Alive at the Core: Exemplary Approaches to General Education in the Humanities (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult… (2000) 11 exemplars
Guide to the Presidency 5th Edition, 2 Volume Set (Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Presidency) (2012) 8 exemplars
The president's words : speeches and speechwriting in the modern White House (2010) — Editor — 3 exemplars
Celebrating the humanities : a half-century of the search course at Rhodes College (1996) 1 exemplars
A Heartbeat Away: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Vice Presidency (1988) 1 exemplars
The Elections of 2000 (Elections of (Year)) 1 exemplars
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Clearly, scholars' normative preference for presidential strength in the 1950s and 1960s had more to it then their value judgements about the proper distribution of power among the branches of government. It was rooted in the liberal policy preferences as well. Democratic historians outnumbered Republicans by two to one in the Schlesinger samples, for example. One of the reasons they found the strength of the presidents they labeled "great" so appealing was that, as Schlesinger put it, each of these presidents "took the side of liberalism and the general welfare against the status quo." William Andrews observed a similar partisan and ideological bias among his fellow political scientists, many of whom had worked in liberal Democratic administrations. When it comes to presidents, he concluded, "The constitutional theory follows the party flag."
I liked that the article--by the editor no less--owned up to biases affecting the analysis. I found this anthology to be pretty balanced and fair--and insightful.… (més)