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虚假的头面人_False_Front_-_Kenneth_Lowande (1).pdf
False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
by Kenneth Lowande
《虚假的头面人：两极分化时代对美国总统权力的失败许诺》（《芝加哥美国政治研究》），肯尼斯·洛安德著
边境墙、学校男女浴室、学生贷款、枪支管制、多元化、堕胎、气候变化——如今，在总统签署法令的笔下似乎没有什么是遥不可及的。但是在所有的新闻发布、仪式和演讲之后，令人震惊的是几乎没有解决什么事情。
美国总统承诺解决美国的问题，但总统单方面的解决方案往往软弱无力，甚至空洞无物。肯尼思认为，这并非偶然。
美国的政治体制并不允许总统解决重大政策问题，但却将这些问题摆在了总统的面前，而且没有其他民选官员更适合以执政者的姿态吸引眼球。与其他政客一样，总统也是寻求象征性胜利的战略行动者。他们追求行政行动，即使明知这些行动会失败，因为这样做可以让他们向主要选民做一场引人注目的表演。但是，这些空洞的总统行动并不是毫无用处，它们会分散有效政府的精力，久而久之，还会破坏公众对政府的信任。
《虚假的头面人》通过对数以千计的行政行为、新闻报道、访谈和总统档案的研究，揭示了总统权力的真正根源在于总统可以不做的事。
目录
1: 两极分化时代的总统权力
2: 现实主义者的总统职位
3: 指望行动
4: 总统如何行动
5: 公众的要求
6: 大多数新闻都是好新闻
7: 帮什么忙？
8: 民主中的行政权力
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A provocative new perspective on presidential power.Border walls, school bathrooms, student loans, gun control, diversity, abortion, climate change–today, nothing seems out of reach for the president’s pen. But after all the press releases, ceremonies, and speeches, shockingly little gets done. The American presidency promises to solve America’s problems, but presidents’ unilateral solutions are often weak, even empty.Kenneth Lowande argues this is no accident. The US political system is not set up to allow presidents to solve major policy problems, yet it lays these problems at their doorstep, and there is no other elected official better positioned to attract attention by appearing to govern. Like any politician, presidents are strategic actors who seek symbolic wins. They pursue executive actions, even when they know that these will fail, because doing so allows them to put on a compelling show for key constituencies. But these empty presidential actions are not without their they divert energy from effective government–and, over time, undermine public trust. Drawing on thousands of executive actions, news coverage, interviews, and presidential archives, False Front shows that the real root of presidential power is in what presidents can get away with not doing.
