دانلود کتاب ریاست جمهوری بایدن – سیاست، سیاست، و قطبی سازی

This book is primarily a description and analysis of the frst 18 months of the Biden presidency. It summarizes the consequences of the 2020 election for Biden, examines the transition, and evaluates his administra-tion’s performance in offce. It also discusses the external environment that he had to address but could not control. Continuing and anticipated issues with which President Biden may have to deal are noted as well.
The organization of the text appears in the table of contents. There are six boxes that detail events, problems, policy proposals, and legisla-tion enacted by one or both chambers of the 117th Congress; 11 small capsules that compare and contrast Biden and Trump’s partisan policy positions and activities, and their successes and failures; 17 tables and one appendix that contain quantitative and descriptive data, as well as organizational charts of parts of the Executive Offce of the President and 14 photographs.
Part I summarizes Biden’s pre-presidential activities. Chapter 1 focuses on the 2020 presidential election, describing Biden’s campaign promises, electoral support, and the strategies he used to win. Chap-ter 2 details his transition to power: how he overcame his predecessor’s resistance to the requirements of the 1963 Presidential Transition Act, which prevented Biden’s representatives from meeting with government offcials for three weeks and, in some cases, even longer. The chapter also describes how Biden and his advisors organized the transition; coped with internal Democratic pressures to nominate particular candidates for offce; achieved diversity by appointing more women, people of color, and ethnic minorities; and set the priorities for his domestic pol-icy agenda. During the transition, Biden’s senior aides also planned and orchestrated his frst ten days in offce. Little was left to chance.
Part II examines Biden’s frst 100 days in offce: his domestic policy objectives, the strategy he adopted for interacting with Congress, and his successes and failures in achieving part of his policy agenda. Chapter 3 looks at how his frst ten days were planned and orchestrated: what the president tried to do, his legislative initiatives and executive actions, and the evalua-tion of his performance during this period by the American people.
Chapter 4 turns to partisan politics and presidential–congressional rela-tions. It examines areas of confict and cooperation between and within the parties, the compromises that were made to gain suffcient support to enact Biden’s policy objectives, the president’s early legislative achievements and failures, and the agenda that lay ahead. Chapter 5 looks at his approach to foreign affairs, his administration’s geographic emphases, ongoing diplo-matic relations, and the framework Biden used to shape a foreign policy that was different from his predecessor’s. The people chosen to guide his policy, the organizations they led, and their relations with their counter-parts from other countries, friends and foes alike, are also described.
Part III details Biden’s relations with the major institutions of Amer-ican national government: Congress, the executive branch, and the legal system. The frst chapter on Congress, Chapter 6 , addresses problems that the president and his congressional party faced in a diverse, some-what discordant, ideologically polarized, and closely divided Congress. It also discusses Biden’s institutional and personal diffculties in dealing with two distinctive legislative bodies as well as with the enlarged egos and primary motivations of members of Congress when they considered and voted on legislation, their reelection, personal beliefs, and the need to satisfy people who voted for them, not nonvoters or political oppo-nents. The chapter also examines the limits and opportunities for exer-cising presidential power, the strategies that can be used to extend that power, and the way in which the president pursued his frst major legis-lative priority, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Biden’s personal style, modes of interaction, the major legislative issues that divided policy makers, and the White House’s role in dealing with Congress and mobi-lizing public pressure on it are discussed as well. Chapter 7 describes the legislative outcomes, what and how the compromises were made, the president’s role in negotiating them, and the proposals included in fnal bills that were enacted, partially successful, delayed, or failed. It also notes other signifcant legislation enacted into law.
In Chapter 8 , the organization, operation, and principal aides selected for senior White House and top Executive Offce positions are detailed as are the imagery designed to contrast Biden’s presidency from Trump’s, the problems that arose in his predecessor’s administration that Biden wanted to avoid, the professional and personal behavior that Biden adopted on a day-to-day basis, and the ethical rules he imposed on his staff are detailed.