Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age

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Mark Zachary Taylor (Associate Professor of Public Policy, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times

Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age

Mark Zachary Taylor (Associate Professor of Public Policy, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology)

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Oxford University Press Inc
06 March 2024

Comparative politics; Political leaders & leadership; Political economy

Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? We tend to stereotype the Gilded Age presidents of the late nineteenth century as weak. We also assume that the American people were intellectually misguided about the economy and the government's role in it during this era. And we generally dismiss the Gilded Age macro-economy as boring--little interesting or important happened. Instead, the micro-economics of the business world was where the action was located. More broadly, many economists and political scientists believe that individual presidents do not matter much, even in the twenty-first century. Institutional constraints and historical circumstance dictate success or failure; the White House is just along for the ride. In Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times, Mark Zachary Taylor shows that all of this is mistaken. Taylor tells the story of three decades of Gilded Age economic upheaval with a focus on presidential leadership--why did some presidents crash and burn, while others prospered? It turns out that neither education nor experience mattered much. Nor did brains, personal ethics, or party affiliation. Instead, differences in presidential vision and leadership style had dramatic consequences. And even in this unlikely period, presidents powerfully affected national economic performance and their success came from surprising sources, with important lessons for us today.

By: Mark Zachary Taylor (Associate Professor of Public Policy Associate Professor of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 170mm, Width: 224mm, Spine: 66mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197750742
ISBN 10: 0197750745
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 06 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Zachary Taylor is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With a background in strategic consulting, he specializes in political economy, international relations, and comparative politics. He is the author of The Politics of Innovation, and has published research in Foreign Affairs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Harvard International Review.