The Presidency and the Political System by Michael Nelson

The Presidency and the Political System by Michael Nelson

"An excellent introduction for students to the key theories and approaches political scientists use to study the presidency."

—Bryan McQuide, Grand View University

Written by top-notch presidency scholars and carefully edited into a text-reader format, The Presidency and the Political System, Eleventh Edition showcases a collection of original essays focused on a range of topics, institutions, and issues relevant to understanding the American presidency. Author Michael Nelson rigorously edits each contribution to present students with a set of analytical yet accessible chapters and contextual headnotes introducing each essay. Students will read about different approaches to studying the presidency, the elements of presidential power, presidential selection, presidents and politics, and presidents and government. The highly anticipated Eleventh Edition of this text fully incorporates coverage of Obama′s second term and the major shifts represented by the new Trump administration. 

"An excellent introduction for students to the key theories and approaches political scientists use to study the presidency"

-- Bryan McQuide

"Successfully balances both historical and political science perspectives on the growth and current operation of the presidency."

-- Ashley Moraguez

"The Presidency and the Political System will challenge students to raise their analytical abilities, while providing them with new insights for thinking about the contemporary presidency."

-- Scott Spitzer

Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, his most recent books include Trump’s First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition.  His 2014 book, Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award.

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ISBN 13	9781544317298
ISBN 10	1544317298
Title	The Presidency and the Political System
Author	Michael Nelson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2018-07-20
Number of pages	608
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