《障眼法：极化时代总统权力的失败承诺》（芝加哥美国政治研究）

English | October 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0226837254 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.02 MB

A provocative new perspective on presidential power.

Border walls, school bathrooms, student loans, gun control, diversity, abortion, climate change—today, nothing seems out of reach for the president's pen. But after all the press releases, ceremonies, and speeches, shockingly little gets done. The American presidency promises to solve America's problems, but presidents' unilateral solutions are often weak, even empty.

Kenneth Lowande argues this is no accident. The US political system is not set up to allow presidents to solve major policy problems, yet it lays these problems at their doorstep, and there is no other elected official better positioned to attract attention by appearing to govern. Like any politician, presidents are strategic actors who seek symbolic wins. They pursue executive actions, even when they know that these will fail, because doing so allows them to put on a compelling show for key constituencies. But these empty presidential actions are not without their costs: they divert energy from effective government—and, over time, undermine public trust. Drawing on thousands of executive actions, news coverage, interviews, and presidential archives, False Front shows that the real root of presidential power is in what presidents can get away with not doing.

一种新的对总统权力的看法。 今日，没有什么问题超出了总统的笔力。从边境墙到学校厕所，从学生贷款到控枪，从多样性到堕胎再到气候变化——几乎没有什么事情是总统无法触及的。然而，在无数的新闻发布会、仪式和演讲之后，令人震惊的是，很少有实质性的事情被落实了。美国的总统制度承诺解决美国的问题，但总统的一人治国方案往往虚弱无力，甚至毫无效果。 肯尼斯·劳德安德森认为这并非偶然。美国的政治体制并没有设计成允许总统处理重大政策问题的方式。相反，它将这些问题摆在他们的面前，并且没有其他当选官员比他们更有可能通过表现出治理来吸引关注。如同任何政治家一样，总统也是战略行动者，寻求象征性的胜利。他们即使知道这些行动注定会失败，依然追求行政行为，因为这样做可以让他们在关键支持群体面前呈现一个令人信服的表演。然而，这些空洞的总统行为并非毫无代价：它们使政府的有效运作受到分心，并且随着时间的推移削弱了公众的信任。基于成千上万的行政行为、新闻报道、采访和总统档案，《虚假前台》揭示出总统权力的核心在于他们可以逃避而不做的事情。

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