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Changing Their Minds?: Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership de George C. Edwards, III

Changing Their Minds?: Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership

Autor George C. Edwards, III
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 2021

În lucrarea Changing Their Minds?, George C. Edwards III oferă o analiză riguroasă a mandatului lui Donald Trump, utilizând această perioadă ca un studiu de caz pentru validarea sau invalidarea teoriilor despre leadershipul executiv. Această ediție aduce în prim-plan date noi, susținute de 74 de tabele și ilustrații, pentru a evalua dacă un profil atipic — cel al unui promotor și negociator experimentat — poate într-adevăr să modifice peisajul politic prin persuasiune. Cartea extinde cadrul propus de The Strategic President – Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership cu date recente, confirmând ipoteza că președinții nu creează oportunități prin retorică, ci mai degrabă le exploatează pe cele existente.

Suntem de părere că volumul reușește să demonteze mitul „marii puteri de convingere” asociat adesea cu figura lui Donald Trump. Structura este una academică și precisă: prima parte, „The Promoter?”, investighează relația cu opinia publică, în timp ce a doua parte, „The Closer?”, analizează interacțiunile cu legislativul. Capitolul final, „Plus ça Change”, sintetizează concluziile, arătând cum tiparele de comunicare ale lui Trump i-au subminat, paradoxal, propria agendă. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare continuă examinarea critică începută în Prisoners of Their Premises, unde autorul analiza modul în care liderii devin captivi ai propriilor asumpții nerealiste. Changing Their Minds? se distinge de titluri precum The White House Speaks prin faptul că nu tratează comunicarea ca pe un instrument de succes garantat, ci ca pe o variabilă constrânsă de contextul strategic.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226775814
ISBN-10: 022677581X
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 3 line drawings, 74 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele reale ale puterii executive dincolo de spectacolul mediatic. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă bazată pe date despre motivul pentru care chiar și cei mai vocali lideri eșuează în a schimba opinia publică sau votul din Congres. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege limitările structurale ale președinției americane moderne.

Despre autor

George C. Edwards, III este unul dintre cei mai respectați specialiști în studiul președinției americane, fiind profesor emerit la Texas A&M University și cercetător asociat la University of Oxford. De-a lungul carierei sale, a publicat lucrări fundamentale care au redefinit modul în care mediul academic percepe influența Casei Albe. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre opinia publică, procesul legislativ și leadershipul strategic, fiind recunoscut pentru rigoarea cu care utilizează datele empirice pentru a contesta teoriile tradiționale despre persuasiunea politică.

Descriere scurtă

Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter the political landscape and create opportunities for change. Instead, successful presidents recognize and skillfully exploit the opportunities already found in their political environments. If they fail to understand their strategic positions, they are likely to overreach and experience political disaster.
 
Donald Trump has been a distinctive president, and his arrival in the Oval Office brought new questions. Could someone with his decades of experience as a self-promoter connect with the public and win its support? Could a president who is an experienced negotiator obtain the support in Congress needed to pass his legislative programs? Would we need to adjust the theory of presidential leadership to accommodate a president with unique persuasive skills?
 
Building on decades of research and employing extensive new data, George C. Edwards III addresses these questions. He finds that President Trump has been no different than other presidents in being constrained by his environment. He moved neither the public nor Congress. Even for an experienced salesman and dealmaker, presidential power is still not the power to persuade. Equally important was the fact that, as Edwards shows, Trump was not able to exploit the opportunities he had. In fact, we learn here that the patterns of the president’s rhetoric and communications and his approach to dealing with Congress ultimately lessened his chances of success. President Trump, it turns out, was often his own agenda’s undoing.

Notă biografică

George C. Edwards III is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Oxford. A leading scholar of the presidency, he has written or edited twenty-six books on American politics. He is also editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly and general editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Politics series. His most recent books are Predicting the Presidency: The Path to Successful Leadership and Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America.

Cuprins

Preface

Chapter 1. Trump as a Test

Part 1. The Promoter? Leading the Public

Chapter 2. Strategic Position with the Public

Chapter 3. Going Public

Chapter 4. On Deaf Ears

Chapter 5. The Bully in the Pulpit

Part 2. The Closer? Leading Congress

Chapter 6. Strategic Position with Congress

Chapter 7. No Deal: Negotiating with Congress

Chapter 8. At the Margins

Part 3. Trump as a Leader

Chapter 9. Plus ça Change

    Notes
 
    Index
 

Recenzii

“Edwards uses a scholar’s tools to dissect Trump’s presidency, asking all the right questions and answering them with careful and thorough analysis. In Edwards’s telling, Trump neither found a way to sway public opinion nor found a way to manage the government. The result is a smart and unsparing portrait of the nation’s forty-fifth president—from his corrosive effect on the public discourse to his impact on democratic institutions.”

“In this sweeping, dispassionate, and altogether damning survey, Edwards makes the case that Trump failed the most important test of presidential leadership: namely, to deliver policy accomplishments where political conditions allow, and to avoid the trappings and delusions of transformational change. For all of his vaunted skills as a dealmaker, Trump could not find the wherewithal to take advantage of the real opportunities that stood before him. Instead, he crashed headlong into political obstacles that were impervious to his threats and entreaties.”

“Edwards deftly applies leading theories of presidential power to the Trump presidency. His discerning analysis rests on a richly detailed and thoroughly documented account of Trump’s political leadership that is both a major contribution to our understanding of this most aberrant of presidencies and an invaluable starting point for future scholars.”

“This timely and important book applies insights gleaned from Edwards’s more than forty years of presidential scholarship to assess and understand the iconoclastic Trump presidency. Despite his showman’s bravado, Edwards shows that Trump was no more successful than his predecessors in moving public opinion and Congress, and he offers a trenchant assessment of Trump’s failed leadership, which ultimately cost the nation dearly.”

“Edwards offers a sober, evidence-based assessment of the Trump presidency. In the process, he convincingly demonstrates that even a norm-shattering president was subject to the same fundamental political and strategic constraints as his predecessors.”

“Edwards brings a lifetime of insight and learning to bear on the ‘great disruption.’ Trump defied the rules and shocked the system. Now, as the dust settles, Edwards eyes the context, filters the noise, and scrutinizes the results. For an assessment of the political significance of this most unusual presidency, there is no better place to begin.”

"George Edwards, a dean of presidential studies, offers an early postmortem on
the Trump presidency. His latest book is a must read starting point for understanding
the Trump era and how his unique administration fits within the presidency and the
established presidential scholarship."