The Conscience of a Conservative

Goldwater, Barry M.

doi:10.1515/9781400827626

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“…Between 1948 and 1976, moderate candidates landed the Republican presidential nomination in every presidential year except 1964, when conservative activists won the nomination for Goldwater, who championed their deep‐seated opposition to government (Kabaservice, 2012). As Goldwater (1960, p. 15) put it in his widely read Conscience of a Conservative , “I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom.…”

Section: The Asymmetric Logic Of Presidential Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

The strongman presidency and the two logics of presidential power

Howell

Moe

2023

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The strongman presidency presents an acute threat to democracy. Two logics underpin its emergence, both of which implicate the administrative state. Under the first, presidents have sought to deploy the vast resources of the administrative state in pursuit of power and legacy. This logic is symmetric, shaping the behavior of Republican and Democratic presidents alike. The second logic, however, sets them apart. Because most of the administrative state is the embodiment of progressive values, Democratic presidents have approached presidential power in ways that are largely compatible with its well‐being, whereas Republican presidents have laid claim to increasingly extreme powers in order to retrench and sabotage it. Layered on the first, this asymmetric logic is the main driver of the strongman presidency—and, ultimately, a major threat to American democracy.

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Section: The Asymmetric Logic Of Presidential Powermentioning

confidence: 99%