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Presidents, Their Styles and Their Leadership
Get PDFIf one set out to design a democracy in which the personal qualities of the top leader could be expected to have an impact on political outcomes, the result might well resemble the political system of the United States. The separation of powers and the Constitutional provision for a president with autonomous powers such as the veto have enabled chief executives to place a personal stamp on the nation's policies since
the founding of the Republic; but until the1930s, Congress typically took the lead in policy making, and the activities of the federal government had little impact on the nation and world
Unequal at the starting line: Creating participatory inequalities across generations and among groups
Full text linkThe Human Element: Three Essays in Political Psychology. By A. F. Davies. Fitzroy & Ringwood. Victoria, Australia: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988. 124p. $12.95 Australia.
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Sheldon M. Stern, Averting “The Final Failure”: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
No full textAmerican Politics - Reagan's America: Innocents at Home. By Garry Wills (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. 472p. $19.95).
No full textThe Press, Presidents, and Crises. By Brigitte Lebens Nacos. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 228p. $32.50.
No full textThe American party system and the American people.
No full textIncludes bibliography.Mode of access: Internet
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