The American Governor [recurso electrónico] : Power, Constraint, and Leadership in The States

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Studying the American Governor....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Public Perceptions of America’s Executives: The President and Two Very Different Governors....Pages 13-30 The Power of Institutional Design: Governors, Vetoes, and Legislative Outcomes....Pages 31-47 Gubernatorial Institutional Authority and Conflict: Executive-Judicial Relations in the United States....Pages 49-70 What Causes State-Level Executive Scandals?....Pages 71-92 Voters and the Limits of Gubernatorial Power: The Case of Iowa....Pages 93-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 New Jersey’s Modern Radical: Governor Woodrow Wilson and the Pragmatist Tradition in American Politics....Pages 117-136 Leadership at the Twilight of Progressivism: Mario Cuomo’s Defense of Liberalism in Two Speeches in the Summer of 1984....Pages 137-153 “What Would Gandhi Do?”: Nikki Haley and South Carolina in American Politics, Black, White, and Brown....Pages 155-176 Rally ’round the Governor: The Response of Voters to Gubernatorial Leadership in Times of Crisis....Pages 177-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 The Music Governors Create and Inspire....Pages 201-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-263 This edited collection 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. The chapters build new models of the interactions between executives and other players within the states, examine the rhetoric of governors as a leadership tool, and generally put new and interesting emphases on governors with both detailed individual cases and larger-N studies. Governors are the political leaders of their states, with a range of powers and also constraints that differ from state to state and time to time. This very range makes the study of governors fertile ground for better understanding the American political system and the important role federalism plays in determining how policy develops and changes at all levels. The contributing authors look broadly at new research on governors, without the specific constraints of particular methods or focal points