384946
9780887384011
Out of Stock
The item you're looking for is currently unavailable.
Wildavsky demonstrates how various recent presidents have attempted to escape or overcome their beleaguered status by such devices as focusing on only a few issues or shedding responsibility (or blame) to other actors, or treating policy problems as if they were essentially administrative in nature. The book analyes the wide divergence on public policy among Democratic and Republican activists and assesses the efforts of presidents from Nixon through Bush to cope, at times successfully, often not, with these divisions.Aaron Wildavsky is the author of 'The Beleaguered Presidency', published 1991 under ISBN 9780887384011 and ISBN 0887384013.
[read more]