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Title

Professional pathways to the presidency / Theresa Marchant-Shapiro.

Author

Marchant-Shapiro, Theresa

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

xii, 251 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "During presidential elections a quadrennial debate emerges which, although it differs in the particulars, reflects the same structure in each reincarnation. Although the issue positions taken by the candidates vary over the years, their claim to qualification for the presidency follows a common pattern. Each candidate discusses his or her prior experience as preparation for one or more of the requirements of the office and then lays claim to the legacy of one of the great presidents who followed the same trajectory to the White House.Missing from this debate is a systematic analysis of how different job experiences prepared the population of all presidents for service. For each of the greats who followed a particular pathway to the presidents there is a failure who shared the pathway. In this book I combine the quantitative evaluation of presidential performance with mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis of professional qualifications. The recent C-SPAN surveys provide us with a nuanced measure of presidential performance by asking historians to rate the Presidents on ten constituent attributes of: Public Persuasion, Moral Authority, Relations with Congress, Performance within Context of Times, Crisis Leadership, International Relations, Vision/Setting an Agenda, Economic Management, Administrative Skills, and Pursued Equal Justice for All. The sub-score for 'Relations with Congress' measures how well the president performs as 'legislator-in-chief' so that I can see whether former legislators work better with congress. Similarly the measure of 'Administrative Skills' indicates whether experience as a governor leads to better performance as the national chief executive. The evaluation of 'Economic Management' looks at whether those presidents with business experience do a better job in dealing with the economy. C-SPAN's nuanced measure of presidential performance allows a more careful evaluation of how prior experience affects particular aspects of presidential greatness than was previously possible"--
• "Presidential hopefuls frequently claim they are qualified because their job experience is the same as a great president. However they ignore the failed presidents who shared the same pathway. This book evaluates all the presidents systematically to determine how prior professional experience influences presidential performance"--

Series Statement

The evolving American presidency series

Uniform Title

Evolving American presidency.

Subject

• Presidents > United States > History
• Vocational qualifications > Political aspects > United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Political Pathways to the Presidency 2. Generally Popular: Military Experience 3. Heir Apparent: Vice Presidents 4. Washington Insiders: Members of Congress 5. From the Governor's Mansion to the White House: Governors 6. A Little Something Extra: National Appointees 7. The Business of the Presidency: Non-Political Experience 8. Modeling Greatness: Evaluating the Pathways to the Presidency.

Call Number

JFD 15-2745

ISBN

• 9781137471048 (hardback)
• 1137471042 (hardback)

LCCN

2014043059

OCLC

895117381

Author

Marchant-Shapiro, Theresa, author.

Title

Professional pathways to the presidency / Theresa Marchant-Shapiro.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The evolving American presidency series

Evolving American presidency.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.

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JFD 15-2745