Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American
- Content Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Political Science Quarterly
- Volume
- 129
- Issue Number
- 1
- Publication Date
- Spring 2014
- Institution
- Academy of Political Science
- Abstract
- Having elsewhere assessed the structural forces that shaped America's rise to global power, Joseph Nye now turns to the personal elements. What role, he asks, did individuals, in particular presidents, play in the twentieth-century emergence of the United States as the arbiter of world affairs? Nye finds wanting the existing literature on presidential leadership as overemphasizing "transformational" presidents and blurring the line between presidential ethics and presidential efficacy.
- Political Geography
- United States, Germany