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The Rising Power of the Modern Vice Presidency
Author(s) -
GOLDSTEIN JOEL K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
presidential studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1741-5705
pISSN - 0360-4918
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5705.2008.02650.x
Subject(s) - presidency , presidential system , institution , vice president , political science , service (business) , power (physics) , government (linguistics) , public administration , position (finance) , management , law , business , politics , economics , economy , finance , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Long a pilloried office, the vice presidency has become a significant government institution especially since the service of Walter F. Mondale (1977–81). Mondale and President Jimmy Carter elevated the office to a position of ongoing significance through a carefully designed and executed effort that required the confluence of a number of factors. Mondale's service provided his successors a more robust institution with new resources, enhanced expectations, and a successful model for vice presidential service. Subsequent vice presidents have benefited from Mondale's legacy but have exercised the office in different ways depending, to some degree, on the way in which the factors that shaped Mondale's term have played out for each new incumbent.