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The Clinton presidency faced a basic set of public questions at the outset regarding its real intentions, strategies, and competence. Would the administration be able to develop and implement policies that were constructive in intent, fair in formulation, and successful in result? Would President Clinton be able to govern as successfully as he campaigned? Would there be a productive fit between Clinton's leadership style and the needs of the public? Additional questions arise about Clinton personally. Many admire him; others distrust him. What realistic basis is there for either view? This book explores these questions and develops an initial appraisal of the Clinton presidency. The chapters herein are framed by theories of political leadership and psychology. They draw on a diverse body of theories, including psychological theories of character and personality, cognitive psychology and communication theory, theories of presidential leadership and performance, and theories of public psychology. The goal is to examine the many facets of leadership and governing that constitute the modern presidency and to locate Bill Clinton's emerging presidency within that framework. Bill Clinton is and likely will remain a controversial president. One objective of this analysis is to provide a clearer, more objective framework in which to evaluate both the man and his approach to political leadership and executive power and the consequences of his approach for public psychology and policy.

chapter 1 The Obama Presidency and the World he Inherits -- part PART I The Bush Doctrine Reconsidered -- chapter 2 The Evolution of a Post-9/11 National Secutity Perspective -- chapter 3 The Real Bush Doctrine -- chapter 4 The Bush Doctrine: Myths and Criticisms -- part PART II The Strategic World after 9/11 -- chapter 5 The New Calculus of Risk -- chapter 6 Deterrence, Containment and Adversarial Bargaining Post-9/11: North Korea and Iran -- chapter 7 Dangerous Threats and the Use of Force -- chapter 8 Strategic Options and the Future of the Bush Doctrine -- part PART III The Politics of Post-9/11 National Security -- chapter 9 The Politics of Risk Assessment -- chapter 10 The Politics of Post-9/11 National Security: A Profound Worldview Divide -- chapter 11 Obama's National Security Tasks: Worldview, Leadership and Judgment.

Non-Citizen Voting in the United States is a scholarly, yet engaging, analysis of the legal, political, and historical issues surrounding the growing progressive effort to give non-citizens the right to vote in America. While challenging assumptions, on both sides of the debate, the book ultimately concludes that non-citizen voting is not currently feasible on practical, theoretical, or legal grounds

Good judgment in foreign policy / Deborah Welch Larson -- Psychological sources of good judgment in political leaders : a framework for analysis / Stanley A. Renshon -- Appraising good judgement before it matters : Al Gore, George W. Bush and the 2000 election campaign / Stanley A. Renshon -- Bad guys and bad judgments / Stephen Wayne -- Truman and the Berlin blockade : the role of intuition and experience in good foreign policy judgment / Deborah Welch Larson -- Perceiving the end of threat : Ronald Reagan and the Gorbachev revolution / Barbara Farnham -- Culture and emotion as obstacles to good judgment : the case of Argentina's invasion of the Falklands/Malvinas / David A. Welch -- Policy planning : oxymoron or sine qua non for U.S. foreign policy? / Bruce W. Jentleson and Andrew Bennett -- Why foreign policy (when it comes to judgment, at least) is not pornography / Richard Haass -- Analysis and judgment in policymaking / Alexander L. George -- The world according to George W. Bush : good judgment or cowboy politics? / Stanley A. Renshon -- Politics, uncertainty, and values : good judgment in context / Deborah Welch Larson

Patterns forged in time : Middle Eastern mind-sets and the Gulf War / L. Carl Brown -- Commentary on part I : Arab perceptions of history and the question of identity / Dankwart A. Rustow -- President Bush goes to war : a psychological interpretation from a distance / Stephen J. Wayne -- The defining moment of Saddam's life : a political psychology perspective on the leadership and decision making of Saddam Hussein during the Gulf crisis / Jerrold M. Post -- Good judgment, and the lack thereof, in the Gulf War : a preliminary psychological model with some applications / Stanley A. Renshon -- Commentary on part II : Personality and leadership in the Gulf / David G. Winter -- Threat-based strategies of conflict management : why did they fail in the Gulf? / Janice Gross Stein -- The war of images : strategic communication in the Gulf conflict / Jarol B. Manheim -- Commentary on part III : Images and the Gulf War / Robert Jervis

Political theorists have long argued that political participation has been a minimal requirement of democratic political systems. More recently, social scientists have turned their attention to understanding the factors that impede or promote participation. This paper examines several such hypotheses which lie within the framework of personality and social-psychological theory. Briefly stated, this author's contention is that: (1) each individual has a need to have sufficient control over relevant aspects of his life-space, which, under specified conditions, includes the political system; (2) the attempt to satisfy this need in the social world generates basic assumptive beliefs about personal control; and (3) these beliefs have important implications for political participation and the support of regimes.To examine these contentions more fully, we first must consider the concept of political efficacy, especially as it relates to the motivation to participate in political life. It will then be possible to present a theory that links feelings of personal control in the political arena with more basic psychological needs that help to organize the personality system. Finally, we will present some exploratory data on the relation between beliefs in personal control and political participation. While these data do not directly contradict previous empirical studies, they do suggest the possibility that a substantial reorganization of the way in which political efficacy is conceptualized may be in order.