Accidental presidents[electronic res...
Abbott, Philip.

 

  • Accidental presidents[electronic resource] :death, assassination, resignation, and democratic succession /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 973.0099
    書名/作者: Accidental presidents : death, assassination, resignation, and democratic succession // Philip Abbott.
    作者: Abbott, Philip.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: 233 p. : : ill.
    標題: Vice-Presidents - Biography. - United States
    標題: Presidents - Biography. - United States
    標題: Presidents - Succession - United States.
    ISBN: 9780230613034
    ISBN: 0230613039
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225) and index.
    內容註: Succession and democratic theory -- John Tyler: "I can never consentto being dictated to" -- Millard Fillmore: "God save us from Whig vicepresidents" -- Andrew Johnson : "I care not about my dignity" -- Theodore Roosevelt: "There's only one life between that madman and the presidency" -- Chester A. Arthur: "He isn't Chet anymore, he's the president" -- Harry S. Truman: "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me" -- Lyndon Baines Johnson: "For millions of Americans I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne, an illegal usurper" -- Calvin Coolidge: "I thought I could swing it" -- Gerald Ford: "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president" -- Conclusion: Refounding succession.
    摘要、提要註: One of the commonly stated virtues of modern constitutional democracies is their capacity to insure reliable and accepted methods of political succession through election. This book focuses on one particular, though not uncommon, complication in the democratic mode of political succession: American vice-presidents who assume office as a result of thedeath, assassination or resignation of a president. Three basic strategies by "accidental presidents" to establish and enhance their legitimacy are identified and evaluated. While none are reliably successful, each provides a lens to study the nature of presidential power and authority as well as to contribute to a democratic theory of succession.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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