Presidential rhetoric and the public agenda
Subtitle: constructing the War on drugs
By: Andrew B. Whitford and Jeff Yates.
Contributors: Yates, Jeff, 1965-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801893469
Subjects: Presidents -- United States; Political leadership -- United States; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; Political oratory -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Language; Drug control -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Presidential leadership and policy construction; title: Presidential rhetoric as policy leadership; title: A presidential history of the war on drugs; title: The words of war : political rhetoric and the war on drugs; title: Presidential policy leadership and federal enforcement : the Drug Enforcement Administration; title: For the people : the U.S. attorneys and executive signals on prosecutorial priorities; title: Taking it to the states : the boundaries of presidential influence and state drug enforcement; title: The social construction of presidential agenda setting.