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Presidents and their parties : leadership or neglect?
- Title
- Presidents and their parties : leadership or neglect? / edited by Robert Harmel.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Praeger, 1984.
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- Additional Authors
- Harmel, Robert, 1950-
- Description
- ix, 274 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Integrating historical analyses of the Presidency from Washington to Reagan with political analyses, these articles analyze the relationships of American Presidents with their national political parties. The authors examine the behavior of Presidents toward the party-as-organization and the party-in-government. They describe Presidential party leadership, Presidential neglect and domination of the parties. Includes proposals for strengthening the relationship of President and party, including recommendations that would require changes through procedural reform. ISBN 0-03-062012-0 : $26.95.
- Series Statement
- American political parties and elections
- Uniform Title
- American political parties and elections.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Copublished with the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University"--Page [ii].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Background for president-party relations -- The roots of president-party relations : Intellectual, conceptual, and contextual / Robert Harmel -- The American president as party leader : A synoptic history / Ralph M. Goldman -- Part II. President and party organization -- The president and the national party organization / Harold F. Bass -- Thoughts of a departing national chairman : Interview with Richard Richards / Independent Network Interview -- The gavels of August : Presidents and national party conventions / Howard L. Reiter -- Part III. Presidents and midterm campaigns -- Presidents as midterm campaigners / Rober G. Brown -- Presidents and party purges : With special emphasis on the lessons of 1938 / Sidney M. Milkis -- Part IV. Presidents and the party-in-government -- Presidential party leadership in Congress / George C. Edwards, III -- Presidents, parties, and platforms : From campaign promise to presidential performance / Jeff Fishel -- Part V : Conclusion -- President-party relations in the modern era : Past problems, and prognosis / Robert Harmel.
- ISBN
- 0030620120
- 9780030620126
- 0275909972
- 9780275909970
- LCCN
- 83014003
- OCLC
- ocm09759896
- 9759896
- SCSB-80682
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library