1st Edition
The Clinton Presidency Campaigning, Governing, And The Psychology Of Leadership
By Stanley Renshon
Copyright 1995
261 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Clinton presidency faced a basic set of public questions at the outset regarding its real intentions, strategies, and competence. Would the administration be able to develop and implement policies that were constructive in intent, fair in formulation, and successful in result? Would President Clinton be able to govern as successfully as he campaigned? Would there be a productive fit between... Read more
Preface -- The Psychological Context of the Clinton Presidency: A Framework for Analysis -- Presidential Psychology—The 1992 Campaign: What Did We Learn? -- How George Bush Lost the Presidential Election of 1992 -- The Political Psychology of the Ross Perot Phenomenon -- Character, Judgment, and Political Leadership: Promise, Problems, and Prospects of the Clinton Presidency -- Public Psychology—Leadership Style -- The Cueless Public: Bill Clinton Meets the New American Voter in Campaign ’92 -- Presidential Psychology and Governing Styles: A Comparative Psychological Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Candidates -- The Process of Presidential Leadership -- Political Style and Political Leadership: The Case of Bill Clinton -- Advice and Advisers in the Clinton Presidency: The Impact of Leadership Style -- Public Psychology and President Clinton -- President Clinton Meets the Media: Communications Shaped by Predictable Patterns -- Public Opinion in President Clinton’s First Year: Leadership and Responsiveness -- The Clinton Presidency and the Psychology of Public Policy: Dilemmas and Opportunities -- President Clinton as a Cognitive Manager -- Psychological Dimensions of Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
Biography
Stanley A. Renshon is a professor of political science at the City University of New York and a psychoanalyst and clinical faculty member at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology. He is the editor of the journal Political Psychology. His most recent book is The Political Psychology of the Gulf War: Leaders, Publics and the Process of Conflict.
