The American Governor

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Studying the American Governor

   1. Studying the American Governor

      • David P. Redlawsk

      Pages 1-10

3. Governors: Power and Constraint

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Public Perceptions of America’s Executives: The President and Two Very Different Governors

      • David J. Andersen

      Pages 13-30

   3. The Power of Institutional Design: Governors, Vetoes, and Legislative Outcomes

      • Robert J. McGrath, Jon C. Rogowski, Josh M. Ryan

      Pages 31-47

   4. Gubernatorial Institutional Authority and Conflict: Executive-Judicial Relations in the United States

      • Gbemende Johnson

      Pages 49-70

   5. What Causes State-Level Executive Scandals?

      • Brandon Rottinghaus

      Pages 71-92

   6. Voters and the Limits of Gubernatorial Power: The Case of Iowa

      • Christopher W. Larimer

      Pages 93-114

4. Governors as Policy and Ideological Leaders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. New Jersey’s Modern Radical: Governor Woodrow Wilson and the Pragmatist Tradition in American Politics

      • Trygve Throntveit

      Pages 117-136

   3. Leadership at the Twilight of Progressivism: Mario Cuomo’s Defense of Liberalism in Two Speeches in the Summer of 1984

      • Saladin Ambar

      Pages 137-153

   4. “What Would Gandhi Do?”: Nikki Haley and South Carolina in American Politics, Black, White, and Brown

      • Jason A. Kirk

      Pages 155-176

   5. Rally ’round the Governor: The Response of Voters to Gubernatorial Leadership in Times of Crisis

      • Ashley Koning, David P. Redlawsk

      Pages 177-198

5. Governors in Popular Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. The Music Governors Create and Inspire

      • John Weingart

      Pages 201-226

6. Back Matter

   Pages 227-263

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This volume brings together a broad range of research on governors in the American states, examining governors as potentially powerful leaders who are subject to a range of constraints, as well as considering how individual governors may choose leadership paths that either enhance or detract from that power.

• U.S. States
• Governor
• Federalism
• State Politics
• Executive
• Leadership
• Political Power
• Political Constraints
• conflict
• Design
• executive
• Institution
• Legislative
• Policy
• politics
• state
• democracy

• New Brunswick, USA

  David P. Redlawsk

Saladin Ambar, Lehigh University, USA Matthew Delmont, Scripts College, USA Gbemende Johnson, Hamilton College, USA Jason Kirk, Elon University, USA Ashley Koning, Rutgers University, USA Christopher Larimer, University of Northern Iowa, USA Robert McGrath, George Mason University, USA Jon Rogowski, University of Chicago, USA Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston, USA Josh Ryan, Bradley University, USA Trygve Throntveit, Harvard University, USA Sophia J. Wallace, Rutgers University, USA John Weingart, Rutgers University, USA

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