TY - BOOK ID - 142266715 TI - Presidential leadership in the Americas since independence AU - Burton, Guy AU - Goertzel, Ted George PY - 2016 SN - 1498526578 PB - Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, DB - UniCat KW - Executive power KW - Executive power KW - Political leadership KW - Political leadership KW - Presidents KW - Presidents KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - Latin America KW - United States KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142266715 AB - Using a comparative history approach, Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence analyzes the presidents and their ability to bring change to their polities, societies, and economies across four different periods: during and after independence; during national consolidation in the nineteenth century; the expansion of the state in the twentieth century; and the turn towards neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. ER -