<i>The Historical Presidency</i>The Perils of Restoration Politics: Nineteenth‐Century Antecedents

Crockett, David A.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2012.04023.x

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“…Pierce also failed to retain the necessary alliances Southern Democrats saw as a bulwark against abolition, and his pandering to their policies had the reverse effect he'd hoped for (Miller, 1998). He positioned enslavement as a question of “property, not morality” and diminished its importance (Crockett, 2012, p. 891). This empowered his enemies to assert that he'd “sold out to the South” to win reelection (Nichols, 1969, p. 448).…”

Section: The Generic Failures Of the Biggest Losersmentioning

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The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

Milford

2023

Pres Stud Q

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Campbell and Jamieson and Medhurst's foundational works on presidential farewell addresses assert that the form creates a sense of continuity, progressive perfection, and pedagogical affirmation and adapts to personal and situational exigencies to define a personal and administrative legacy for the outgoing president, as evidenced by the oft‐celebrated addresses of Washington and Eisenhower. However, at times these constraints are difficult to manage, particularly in the case of incumbents who were soundly denied a second term because of questionable administrative choices. In such cases, rhetors often turn to generic hybrids, combining forms and functions of different addresses to attend to complicated exigencies and audiences. The cases considered here infused the farewell's form with apologia, a speech of self‐defense, resulting in an inward‐focused address that failed to resolve important legacies. Examining the farewell addresses of three of the biggest electoral losers in history provides insight into the impacts these choices have on presidential legacy.

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Section: The Generic Failures Of the Biggest Losersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

Milford

2023

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“…The merit of this article's focus on presidents of disjunction is twofold. While the other types of presidency have received attention from various scholars since Skowronek's work was first published (e.g., Crockett ; ; Harris ; Nichols and Myers ), there are few, if any, specific studies of presidents of disjunction. The very existence of presidents of disjunction raises questions about the nature of progress in American society, whereby perceived disasters are necessary to spur major change.…”

Section: Stephen Skowronek's Political Timementioning

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The Impossible Leadership Situation? Analyzing Success for Disjunctive Presidents

Laing¹,

McCaffrie²

2017

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This article argues that the way we understand presidential success should be different for presidents in different contexts. It provides the first deeper exploration of success for Skowronek's "disjunctive" presidents and finds that, particularly when these presidents engage in policy experimentation, they can play an important role in preparing the way for a later reconstruction. Although the presidents of disjunction are particularly constrained, they are capable of success as long as we judge them realistically and acknowledge that they may receive little credit for their concrete achievements. We illustrate this contention through the presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, which exemplify the degrees of success available within the constraints of a faltering partisan regime.

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“…So, we conclude, Cameron was an affiliate of an enervated regime. However, Crockett’s (2012) work suggests that Cameron could be classified as a ‘restoration’ prime minister. For Crockett, ‘restoration’ presidents are ‘late regime’ affiliates, entering office a generation or more after the regime’s foundation and a substantial interregnum of opposition party control.…”

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Evaluating British prime ministerial performance: David Cameron’s premiership in political time

Byrne

Randall

Theakston

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the UK by applying a critical reading of Stephen SkowronekÕs account of leadership in Ôpolitical timeÕ to evaluate David CameronÕs premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on GreensteinÕs and BulpittÕs approaches. We identify Cameron as a disjunctive prime minister but find it necessary to significantly develop the model of disjunctive leadership beyond that offered by Skowronek. We identify the warrants to authority, strategies and dilemmas associated with disjunctive leadership in the UK. We argue that Cameron was relatively skilful in meeting many of the challenges confronting an affiliated leader of a vulnerable regime. However, his second term exposed deep fractures in the regime which proved beyond CameronÕs skills as a disjunctive leader. Research highlights This article:¥ Contributes to the debate about the best theoretical frameworks for evaluating prime ministerial performance in the UK. ¥ Argues that an historical institutionalist framework is able to address the major shortcoming of existing frameworks, namely evaluating prime ministerial performance in the structural context of the political environment in which holders of that office act. ¥ Adapts Stephen SkowronekÕs account of the performance of US presidents to the constitutional, institutional and political circumstances of the UK polity and significantly develops SkowronekÕs account of regime vulnerability and the characteristics and constraints of disjunctive leadership ¥ Applies this adapted model for the purposes of a systematic evaluation of David CameronÕs premiership. This identifies that although Cameron was relatively successful in negotiating the challenges and constraints of disjunctive prime ministerial leadership in his first term he made commitments which, in his second term, exposed key fault lines in the regime and proved beyond CameronÕs skills as a disjunctive leader to manage.2

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The Historical PresidencyThe Perils of Restoration Politics: Nineteenth‐Century Antecedents

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

The Impossible Leadership Situation? Analyzing Success for Disjunctive Presidents

Evaluating British prime ministerial performance: David Cameron’s premiership in political time

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