President as Prisoner, The
Author : William F. Grover
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9781438405186
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (518 downloads)
Download President as Prisoner, The in PDF Full Online Free by William F. Grover and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses, not on the Constitutional balance of power between Congress and the White HouseÂa focus that restricts analysis to questions of meansÂbut on the more unsettling and often unexamined question of the ends of the presidency and American public policy. It offers a Âstructural theory which links what a president can do to the underlying interests behindÂand ideology ofÂthe capitalist state. Structural theory insists upon an encounter between theories of the state and theories of the presidency, and in so doing steers the field of presidential studies into largely uncharted territory. Grover explores the tradeoffs and limitations encountered by Presidents Carter and Reagan as they pursued the goals of economic prosperity and national security. He argues that the limitations imposed on the presidency are more complicated than the personal deficiencies of a particular person. Such structural limitations, Grover notes, are not merely constitutional but economic and statist. His analogy of the Âpresident as prisoner in this larger sense is compelling.