Rose Mcdermott

Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making

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Produktbeschreibung

The impact of medical and psychological illness on presidential foreign policy decision making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521709248
• ISBN-10: 0521709245
• Artikelnr.: 26183295

Autorenporträt

Rose McDermott is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor McDermott's main area of research revolves around political psychology in international relations. She is the author of Risk Taking in International Relations: Prospect Theory in American Foreign Policy (1998) and Political Psychology in International Relations (2004). Professor McDermott has held fellowships at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, both at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Aging, illness, and addiction
3. The exacerbation of personality: Woodrow Wilson
4. Leading while dying: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943-45
5. Addicted to power: John F. Kennedy
6. Richard Nixon: bordering on sanity
7. 25th Amendment
8. Presidential care.