Presidency and American Political Development: a third look.

From: Presidential Studies Quarterly | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Skowronek, Stephen | Copyright information

Over the course of the past century, the presidency was construed first as the solution to the problems of governing in America, and then as the source of America's governing problems. In its time, each of these constructions elaborated a history of the office and anchored an agenda for presidential studies. It would seem, however, that political experience, if not the mere passage of time, has robbed both constructions of much of their bite, and that presidential studies finds itself for t...

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