The performative presidency crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years /

"The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton and details how the relations between these spheres...

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Institutionellt upphov: ebrary, Inc
Övriga upphov: Mast, Jason L.
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Serie:Cambridge cultural social studies
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Presidential leadership under the conditions of defusion; 3. Character formation: the rise of two Bill Clintons, 1992; 4. The profanation of a president, 1992-1994: presidential character, the 'climate of suspicion', and the culture of scandal; 5. The Conservative revolution as purification and its subsequent pollution: the rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, and the fall and rise of Bill Clinton; 6. Birth of a symbolic inversion: Clinton (re)fuses with the presidential character; 7. The second term: the Republicans' polluting scandal and Clinton's successful performance; 8. Conclusion.