Presidential rhetoric and the public agenda : constructing the war on drugs /
"The bully pulpit is one of the modern president's most powerful tools - and one of the most elusive to measure. Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda uses the war on drugs as a case study to explore whether and how a president's public statements affect the formation and carryi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2009.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Presidential leadership and policy construction
- Presidential rhetoric as policy leadership
- A presidential history of the war on drugs
- The words of war : political rhetoric and the war on drugs
- Presidential policy leadership and federal enforcement : the Drug Enforcement Administration
- For the people : the U.S. attorneys and executive signals on prosecutorial priorities
- Taking it to the states : the boundaries of presidential influence and state drug enforcement
- The social construction of presidential agenda setting.