Book Excerpts, Papers and Podcasts
· The Tim Ferriss Show ep. 86: General Stanley McChrystal https://tim.blog/2015/07/05/stanley-mcchrystal/
· Levin, Yuval. Congress Is Weak Because Its Members Want It to Be Weak. Commentary, June 2018. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/congress-weak-members-want-weak/
· Benjamin Moffitt and Simon Tormey –Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style. Political Studies: 2014 VOL 62, 381–397
· Elayan, S., S., Sykora, M.D. and Jackson, T., 2018. ``His tweets speak for themselves'': An analysis of Donald Trump's Twitter be-haviour. Presented at the Fourth International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP) conference, Oxford, UK, 11-12 October 2018.
· Evan Dashevsky – Donald Trump and the “Modern” Twitter Presidency (article) https://www.pcmag.com/article/355726/donald-trump-and-the-modern-twitter-presidency
· Nicol Turner-Lee – How the President’s Twitter Account Affects Civil Society (article) https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2017/02/16/how-the-presidents-twitter-account-affects-civil-society/
· Steven A. Seidman (2010) Barack Obama’s 2008 Campaign for the U.S. Presidency and Visual Design, Journal of Visual Literacy, 29:1, 1-27
· Diana Owen, Richard Davis – Presidential Communication in the Internet Era (paper)
· Richard M. Perloff – The Dynamics of Political Communication. Media and Politics in a Digital Age (book excerpts)
· Richard Ellis, Michael Nelson – Debating the Presidency: Conflicting Perspectives on the American Executive (book excerpts)
· Kruse Kevin, Zelizer Julian. Fault Lines. A History of the United States Since 1974. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2018
Films and Videos
· The Twitter Presidency (TwiT Netcast Network) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3egI4AXo6rc
· Brad Parscale – The Trump Effect One Year On (Worldwide Speakers Group) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZmQfZ5Vg0o
Course Schedule
1. February 18
Introduction and Course Requirements
2. February 25
Presidential Character and Leadership
Listen before the class session: The Tim Ferriss Show ep. 86: General Stanley McChrystal https://tim.blog/2015/07/05/stanley-mcchrystal/
Reading: Debating the Presidency, Chapter Seven
3. March 4
Presidency and Congress
Reading: Levin, Yuval. Congress Is Weak Because Its Members Want It to Be Weak
4. March 11
Populism as Style
Reading: Moffitt and Tormey – Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style.
5. March 18
The Twitter Presidency
Readings: Elayan, Sykora, and Jackson. ``His tweets speak for themselves''; Dashevsky – Donald Trump and the “Modern” Twitter Presidency; Turner-Lee – How the President’s Twitter Account Affects Civil Society
In-Class Video: The Twitter Presidency (TwiT Netcast Network)
6. March 25
Digital / Visual
Readings:Seidman—Barack Obama’s 2008 Campaign for the U.S. Presidency and Visual Design; Owen and Davis – Presidential Communication in the Internet Era
7. April 1
WRITTEN TEST
8. April 8
Presidential Campaigns
Readings: Perloff, The Dynamics…Chapter 1 & Chapter 11;
9. April 15
Persuasion and Campaigns
Reading: Perloff, The Dynamics…Chapter 14
In-Class Video: Brad Parscale – The Trump Effect One Year On (Worldwide Speakers Group)
10. April 22
Advertising and Debates
Reading: Perloff, The Dynamics…Chapters 15 and 16
11. April 29
American Presidency and U.S. Constitution
Reading: Debating the Presidency, Chapter One
12. May 6
Unitary Executive
Reading: Debating the Presidency, Chapter Two; Dashevsky – Donald Trump and the “Modern” Twitter Presidency
13. May 13
Executive Orders
Reading: Debating the Presidency, Chapter Twelve
FINAL EXAM – BOOK REVIEW DUE ON MAY 23
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