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eBook details
- Title: Midterm Campaigning and the Modern Presidency: Reshaping the President's Relationship with Congress
- Author : Michael A. Julius
- Release Date : January 31, 2018
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7413 KB
Description
Providing a unique resource for readers seeking to understand the relationship between presidents, parties, and Congress, this book offers a new explanation of the motivations, strategies, and impacts of presidential midterm campaigns.
• Examines all presidential midterm campaigning from 1954 (the inception of the "imperial" presidency) through 2014
• Includes case studies of nine presidents as midterm campaigners: Johnson, Taft, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Bush, and Obama
• Shows that presidents use campaigns not to aid their own party but to reshape it around their own ideological preferences
• Explains the relationship between presidential midterm campaigning and the U.S. party system
• Explores how presidential midterm campaigning affects subsequent Congressional behavior and federal elections