Emerging from the Shadows : Vice Presidential Influence in the Modern Era (Suny series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

Yon, Richard M.

State University of New York Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 410 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438496108
• DDC分類 352.2390973

Full Description

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

Although once derided as an insignificant office, the vice presidency in the last forty years has witnessed an increase in stature, prominence, and influence. Emerging from the Shadows focuses on explaining variation in vice presidential influence over time with an assumption that all vice presidents in the modern era have the capacity to exercise influence. This study is the first of its kind to ascertain the true nature of vice-presidential influence and the consequences of changing interpersonal, situational, institutional, and electoral dynamics on that influence using in-depth interviews and archival research. These four dynamics, as Richard M. Yon demonstrates, provide a model by which to understand the fluidity of vice-presidential influence, which in turn enables more precise analysis of the vice presidencies of Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, and Joe Biden.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defining Influence and the Four Dynamics that Shape It

2. Nelson Rockefeller: A Case of Marginalized Influence

3. Dick Cheney: A Case of Unprecedented Influence

4. Mondale, Bush, Quayle, Gore, and Biden: Tales of Vice Presidential Influence

Conclusion

Appendixes
Notes
References
Index