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Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2006

Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Affiliation:
Beloit College

Extract

Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. By Brandice Canes-Wrone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 192p. $47.50 cloth, $18.00 paper.

The good news: The public actually does influence policy decisions at least some of the time, and presidential demagoguery is not pervasive. The unremarkable: We can only judge these facts for issues within the scope of polling, and presidents act strategically when they attempt to influence policy.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

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