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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Presidency"”.
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National Security Crises and the Expanding American Presidency
… Constitution is meant to protect the rights of American citizens, while providing the United States with a strong and responsible government. During times of crisis, the executive branch of the government has often expanded its authority claiming that it requires extra powers to defend the …
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The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency
… focus on the administrative aspects of the presidency emphasizes the crucial importance of a president’s degree of control, and dominance, over the executive branch. In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between the unitary executive, in practice, and the power of presidents to …
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“The Imagined Presidency”: Political Communication as “Narrative” and “Performance” – A Case Study of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
… identity in the United States: that of the American Presidency. The perception of Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign as epitomizing such shifts in the collective meaning-making processes lies at the core of this research project. The analyzes Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election …
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Presidential power and constitutional public administration.
… examines the relationship between the American presidency and the federal bureaucracy from the perspective of the constellation of power created by the Constitution. It argues that the centrality of presidential power in discussions of bureaucratic management and oversight is the result …
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Entrepreneurial leadership in higher education: Does the presidential career pathway make a difference?
… century. As noted by Duderstadt (2006) “[t]he American presidency has more of the character of a chief executive officer” (p. 249). Amey (2006) stated “[l]eaders are key to how organizations function, and there is little doubt that the leaders who are needed to guide postsecondary institutions …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
… but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and challenges as other Americans of the early nineteenth century. Another common experience for many Americans of Jackson’s day included church life, revivals, and efforts to conceptualize every day …