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BILL CLINTON AS WARREN HARDING: THE POST‐WAR PRESIDENT AS A PROBLEM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Langston Thomas S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1997.tb00790.x
Subject(s) - presidency , presidential system , politics , political science , cold war , resilience (materials science) , economic history , public administration , law , political economy , history , sociology , physics , thermodynamics
The post‐Cold War presidency of Bill Clinton is compared to that of Warren Harding and other post‐war presidents. Somefam iliarfeatures of contemporary presidential politics are seen in this light as the latest manifestations of a recurring pattern in presidential politics. The transition from war to peace is marked today, as it has been in the past, by a flight from liberalism, factionalism within the president's party, and the chief executive's resilience against scandal.