All Too Human: A Political Education

Zelikow, Philip; Stephanopoulos, George; Morris, Dick

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“…To begin with, former press secretaries detail their work or role, in fact the many roles and the demands placed on the staffer, in autobiographies or diaries covering the UK (e.g., Campbell, 2007; Ingham, 1991; McBride, 2014; Price, 2005, see also Price, 2010) or the USA (e.g., Fleischer, 2005; Spicer, 2018; Stephanopoulos, 1999; see also Nelson, 1998). These accounts lay bare the role of and the pressures on the press secretary, and the different sides of the job.…”

Section: Literature: Executive Press Secretaries In Theory and Practicementioning

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Along the government–media frontier: Press secretaries offline/online

Johansson

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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While the position of press secretaries to ministers has become routinized, we still know little about their everyday life in the political executive. This article, based on in‐depth interviews with press secretaries and an inventory of social media use conducted among ministers and press secretaries in Sweden, explores what press secretaries do and the roles and functions they fill. It addresses the overarching question of what it is really like to be government press secretary. It engages with this question through a combination of methods, mapping, and explaining patterns of behavior across related fields and strategic spaces. We argue that existing research and role typologies, while still useful, must be developed by accounting more for how press secretary work changes through new techniques and digitalization. We conclude that press secretaries fill a mix of roles and these are quite stable, but social media impacts on the daily routine of the press secretary and are a part of the work that is difficult or impossible to control. In addition, this study of Swedish press secretaries helps to redress a geographical imbalance in political communication (system) research where the focus usually is on Anglo‐American‐based scholarship and systems.

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Section: Literature: Executive Press Secretaries In Theory and Practicementioning

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Along the government–media frontier: Press secretaries offline/online

Johansson

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…There is also a substantial amount of first-person accounts of spokespersons for elected officials, especially those in the White House. Memoirs of presidential spokespersons include: the administrations of Clinton (Stephanopoulous, 1999;McCurry, 1996); Bush and Reagan (Fitzwater, 1995); Reagan (Speakes, 1988); Carter (Powell, 1984); Ford (Messen, 1978;TerHorst, 1974); Nixon (Klein, 1980); Johnson (Christian, 1970;Reedy, 1968); Kennedy (Salinger, 1966); Eisenhower (Ferrell, 1983);and Hoover (Joslyn, 1934). Others include memoirs of press secretaries to a vice president (Gold, 1975), a governor (Robertson, 1975), and a Canadian prime minister (Gossage, 1986).…”

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The Agency Spokesperson: Connecting Public Administration and the Media

Lee

2001

Public Administration Quarterly

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Spokespersons for administrative agencies are the focal point for connecting public administration and the media. However, while significant attention has been paid to spokespersons for elected officials, those for administrative agencies have received less attention. This article reviews the literature on spokespersonship, presents the results of a survey of the chief public information officers in local government agencies, and compares the results to an identical survey of their counterparts in federal agencies. It concludes that spokespersons for all government agencies are becoming increasingly important in public administration due to the rise of the role of the media in modern society.

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“…Make corresponding policy adjustments. Be perceptive and make these changes before you can do nothing but accept reality and leave with a complete loss (Clarke, 2004, p. 88; Clinton 1993a, 1993b; Halberstam, 2001, p. 264; Stephanopoulos, 2008, p. 217). Those are the same elements Clinton articulated as impactful from his formative years working for Senator Fulbright during the height of the Vietnam War (Clinton, 2004, pp.…”

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Fighting the last war: Is presidential hindsight 20‐20?

Groves

2023

Pres Stud Q

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Fighting the last war lays out the contours of a theoretical framework that explains U.S. presidential decisions to cut losses or double down on major post‐Vietnam military conflicts. The archival sources and principal interviews give readers an insider's look into presidents' conflict decision making. The article explains how the Vietnam War catastrophe shaped Presidents Reagan and Clinton's attempts to avoid a similar quagmire in Lebanon in 1983–1984 and Somalia in 1993, respectively. It then shows how new lessons from 9/11 and beyond shaped Presidents Bush and Obama's decisions to surge troops and employ counterinsurgency strategies in Iraq (2007) and Afghanistan (2009). While Vietnam‐era lessons remained important to all these presidents, pre‐9/11 they believed entrapment risks from incremental escalation were worse than de‐escalation risks. After 9/11, the logic flipped.

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All Too Human: A Political Education

Cited by 17 publications

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Along the government–media frontier: Press secretaries offline/online

Along the government–media frontier: Press secretaries offline/online

The Agency Spokesperson: Connecting Public Administration and the Media

Fighting the last war: Is presidential hindsight 20‐20?

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