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Title: Midterm Campaigning and the Modern Presidency: Reshaping the President's Relationship with Congress
Author : Michael A. Julius
Release Date : January 31, 2018
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 7413 KB

Description

Providing a unique resource for readers seeking to understand the relationship between presidents, parties, and Congress, this book offers a new explanation of the motivations, strategies, and impacts of presidential midterm campaigns.

• Examines all presidential midterm campaigning from 1954 (the inception of the "imperial" presidency) through 2014

• Includes case studies of nine presidents as midterm campaigners: Johnson, Taft, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Bush, and Obama

• Shows that presidents use campaigns not to aid their own party but to reshape it around their own ideological preferences

• Explains the relationship between presidential midterm campaigning and the U.S. party system

• Explores how presidential midterm campaigning affects subsequent Congressional behavior and federal elections