Presidential leadership in the Americas since independence / Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel.

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Burton, Guy [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.
Description
xix, 271 pages ; 24 cm

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    Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence answers these questions through a systematic study of leadership across the Americas over 200 years, from independence to the present day. Having surveyed who the most cited presidents are in the Americas, Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel examine the experience of presidents from across the western hemisphere: the US, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. They study the relationship between these men and women's actions within the constraints they faced during four political periods: independence, national consolidation during the nineteenth century, state-building from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries and neoliberalism since the 1970s-80s. --Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
    Contents
    • Making sense of presidential leadership
    • Identifying the outstanding leaders of the Americas
    • Historical eras and political regimes in eight American republics
    • Leadership in the wars of independence and their aftermath
    • Presidential leadership and national consolidation
    • Presidential leadership in the era of state development
    • Presidential leadership in the era of neoliberal globalization
    • Conclusion : the transformational presidents of the Americas.
    ISBN
    • 9781498526562 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 149852656X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781498526586
    • 1498526586
    LCCN
    2016034670
    OCLC
    953630872
    Other standard number
    • 99970464169
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