Over at Grasping Reality: Douglas Harris on Dwight Eisenhower and the New Deal
Over at Grasping Reality: Douglas Harris on Dwight Eisenhower and the New Deal:
Dwight Eisenhower and the New Deal: The Politics of Preemption: “Skowronek… [sees] four types of presidential politics: the politics of reconstruction, the politics of articulation, the politics of disjunction, and the politics of preemption….
:Presidents practicing the politics of preemption are opposed to resilient regimes, but in the difficult position of searching for reconstructive opportunities where reconstruction is neither warranted by mandate nor sufficiently supported by segments of society…. Skowronek… gives little attention to the politics of preemption… [even though] the politics of preemption represents ‘the most curious of all leadership situations.’… READ MOAR