Bøger af Brandon Rottinghaus

How Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state's longest serving governor.

Accessible and memorable for today's students, Inside Texas Politics presents Texas government through an "insider's perspective" using engaging stories, contemporary news events, and current scholarship to help students understand and analyze politics in the great state of Texas.

Texas government and politics is best understood from the inside

This book reinterprets how and when presidents use unilateral power, arguing that these orders are used not only to press the president's agenda, but also to share power with Congress and facilitate the work of government.

The cornerstone of the public presidency is the ability of the White House to influence, shape, and even manipulate public opinion. This title develops a theory of presidential leadership, arguing that presidential messages are more likely to be received if there are fewer countervailing agents or messages to contradict the president's message.