Jason L. Mast

The Performative Presidency

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cultural analysis of 1990s politics in the US, detailing the rise of performance oriented politics during Clinton's presidency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781107026186
• ISBN-10: 1107026180
• Artikelnr.: 36616826

Autorenporträt

Jason L. Mast is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Presidential leadership under the conditions of
defusion; 3. Character formation: the rise of two Bill Clintons, 1992; 4.
The profanation of a president, 1992-4: presidential character, the
'climate of suspicion', and the culture of scandal; 5. The Conservative
revolution as purification and its subsequent pollution: the rise and fall
of Newt Gingrich, and the fall and rise of Bill Clinton; 6. Birth of a
symbolic inversion: Clinton (re-)fuses with the presidential character; 7.
The second term: the Republicans' polluting scandal and Clinton's
successful performance; 8. Conclusion.