Name: The American Governor
ISBN: 978-1-137-48067-5

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiv

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Studying the American Governor
1. Studying the American Governor
  
  David P. Redlawsk
  
  Pages 1-10
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
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
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
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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.

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New Brunswick, USA

David P. Redlawsk

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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

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: The American Governor
Book Subtitle: Power, Constraint, and Leadership in The States
Editors: David P. Redlawsk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480675
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48818-3Published: 06 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48067-5Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Democracy, Political Science, European Politics, Law, general, Social Sciences, general

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Studying the American Governor

Governors: Power and Constraint

Front Matter

Governors as Policy and Ideological Leaders

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Governors in Popular Culture

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Back Matter

Keywords

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New Brunswick, USA

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