TY - BOOK AU - Rottinghaus,Brandon ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The provisional pulpit: modern presidential leadership of public opinion T2 - Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership AV - JK516 .R67 2010 U1 - 352.23/60973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A&M University Press KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Public opinion KW - Case studies KW - Political leadership KW - Communication in politics KW - Persuasion (Rhetoric) KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index; Questions and quandaries of presidential leadership -- The constrained presidency: a conditional theory of presidential leadership -- Presidential (non-) leadership of public opinion -- Successful presidential leadership of public opinion -- Case studies of successful leadership (domestic policy) -- Nixon implements wage and price controls -- Reagan and the negotiation over the budget -- Clinton and the budget debate -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (domestic policy) -- Kennedy's Medicare proposal -- Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now' -- Reagan 'reforms' social security -- Case studies of successful leadership (foreign policy) -- Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy -- Carter on the Panama Canal treaties -- Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (foreign policy) -- Nixon (temporarily) escalates Vietnam -- Reagan presses for 'contra' funding -- Clinton withdraws from Somalia -- Implications for leadership and the public presidency -- Epilogue: Presidents 43 and 44 -- Appendix A. Case selection and matching statements and opinion polling -- Appendix B. Case study selection and archival data collection -- Appendix C. Models and data; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3037766 ER -