See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: President, Congress & the Administrative BranchPresidential Spending Power. By Louis Fisher The Power of the Modern Presidency. By Erwin Hargrove Administrative Feedback. By Herbert Kaufman The Domestic Presidency: Decision-Making in the White House. By John H. Kessel Bureaucracy and Representative Government. By William A. Niskanen Notes on the Old System: To Transform American Politics. By Marcus Raskin

Polity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Underwood
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
White House ◽  
Modern Presidency ◽  
Administrative Feedback

scholarly journals Partisan Ambivalence and Electoral Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Craig ◽  
Paulina Cossette ◽  
Michael Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Campaign Ads ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
High Degree

American politics today is driven largely by deep divisions between Democrats and Republicans. That said, there are many people who view the opposition in an overwhelmingly negative light – but who simultaneously possess a mix of positive and negative feelings toward their own party. This paper is a response to prior research (e.g., Lavine, Johnson, and Steenbergen 2012) indicating that such ambivalence increases the probability that voters will engage in "deliberative" (or "effortful") rather than "heuristic" thinking when responding to the choices presented to them in political campaigns. We extend the logic of this argument to a hypothetical race for Congress, using data from a survey experiment to determine whether a high degree of ambivalence toward one's party makes voters more responsive to a negative attack against the candidate of that party. In fact, we find little evidence that partisan ambivalence promotes a deliberative response to negative campaign ads.

The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics

Hard White ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Fording ◽  
Sanford F. Schram
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
White House ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Key Terms

This chapter frames the book’s analysis and provides an overview of the subsequent chapters. It explains how racism today is manifested most significantly in white “outgroup hostility” toward Latinos and Muslims as well as African Americans. It highlights the importance of race-baiting elites in exploiting a transformed media landscape to stoke white outgroup hostility and thereby mainstream racism in American politics today. The chapter introduces and defines a number of key terms, including “racialized political narratives” that operate to racialize selected groups of people to be constructed as threatening “outgroups” in opposition to whites as the “ingroup.” It emphasizes that the “political opportunity structure” for white racial extremists became more open, especially with the rise of the Tea Party movement, leading to their increased participation in conventional politics. The chapter argues that these factors had already converged prior to 2016 for Donald Trump to exploit in winning the presidency, thereby accelerating the mainstreaming of racism in American politics by putting it at the center of public policymaking in the White House.

Facts or Feelings?

2021 ◽  
pp. 208-226
Author(s):  
Jacob William Justice
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Expert Consensus ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Rational Argument ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Social Intuitionist Model

The social intuitionist model has significant implications for the study of communication. Specifically, this chapter argues that the social intuitionist model reveals the limitations of rational argument and illustrates factors contributing to misinformation. This argument is developed through a series of four observations. First, communicators have attempted to combat misinformation through rational argument. Second, centuries of interdisciplinary insights revealing the intuitive nature of human decision-making cast doubt on strategies that appeal to audiences primarily through facts and reason. Third, application of the social intuitionist model to contemporary American politics can help explain several puzzling dynamics, including the appeal of Donald Trump and the persistence of misinformation. Fourth, communication scholarship can be improved through greater recognition of the influence of intuition upon decision-making. This chapter concludes by proposing ways that emotional narratives can be used to bridge gaps between public opinion and expert consensus.

Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House. By Daniel E. Ponder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 244p. $39.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
Andrew Rudalevige
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
White House ◽  
Good Advice ◽  
College Station ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Insight Into

That the amount and nature of the information reaching the president matters for the choices he makes is hardly disputed, but translating this insight into analysis has been slow work. This is true especially in comparison to other subfields (e.g., legislative studies), which in making use of the new institu- tionalism have stressed information by highlighting the roles institutions play in ameliorating the uncertainty rampant in political decision making. Daniel Ponder's new book, then, is particularly welcome. Good Advice asks some critical ques- tions: What did the president know, and how did he come to know it? Equally important, how did that matter?

White House Decision-Making under Stress: A Case Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Sigelman ◽  
Dixie Mercer McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
White House
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