Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Political Institutions and the Politics of the Presidential Mandate 1 1. Changes in Mandate Rhetoric: From the Progressive Era to the Partisan Era 21 2. The Changing Presidential Script: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Politics of Transition 59 3. President of All the People? Eisenhower, Johnson, and Leadership in the Modern Era 83 4. The Presidency in Crisis: Nixon, Carter, and the Decline of Consensus 111 viii Contents 5. What an Election Is All About: Reagan, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Mandates 135 Conclusion: Delivering the People’s Message 165 Notes 179 Index 203 ...