Debating the Presidency: Conflicting Perspectives on the American Executive: Conflicting Perspectives on the American Presidency - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1568029144 ISBN 13: 9781568029146

Casa editrice: Cq Pr, 2006

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Intending this textbook to encourage classroom debate over normative as well as empirical issues of the American presidency, Ellis (American politics, Willamette U.) and Nelson (American politics, Rhodes College) present 12 chapters in which scholars of the presidency present pro and con sides of such questions as to whether the framers of the Cons

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Richard J. Ellis teaches American politics at Willamette University. He has written widely on the history of the American presidency and American political culture. His most recent books are To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (2005) and Democratic Delusions: The Initiative Process in America (2002). Michael Nelson teaches courses on U.S. politics, 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 Vanderbilt University for thirteen years and was the editor of The Washington Monthly. His most recent books are The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (2006), The Elections of 2004 (2005), The Evolving Presidency, 2nd ed. (2004), The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002, 4th ed. (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2003), Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation (with John Lyman Mason, 2001), and Celebrating the Humanities: A Half Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College (1996).

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• Editore: Cq Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1568029144
• ISBN 13: 9781568029146
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Redattore: Ellis Richard J., Nelson Michael