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<p>The U.S. president has to make difficult, important, and very public decisions every day. We don't expect one person to be an expert in all the areas in which the president has to make decisions. So how do presidents do it? They rely on their staffs to give information and advice.</p> <p><i>Good Advice</i> is a systematic study of Jimmy Carter's reign and those who advised him. Daniel E. Ponder discusses the president's policies, the advisors behind each, and how much of that advice ultimately became incorporated into the president's official proposals.</p> <p>The book's central thesis is that although presidents have tended to centralize policy-making authority in the White House staff, the dynamics of staff participation and consequent policy success vary from issue to issue, consistent with a theoretical framework Ponder calls staff shift. Ponder further analyzes how presidents decide whose advice to take and whose to ignore and the politics behind those decisions.</p> <p>Ponder examines each of the three major roles of staff advisory—policy directors, facilitators, and monitors—and discusses a "successful" and unsuccessful policy in each. He focuses on the six policy areas o

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Author

Daniel E. Ponder; David E. Ponder

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781603447126

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Military, Science