The Presidential Elections

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6402811
AutoresJerome G Kerwin (autor de correspondencia)
Año1948
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas147-153
Fecha de publicación1948-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670500042224
OpenAlexW2053802780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

Under the French Third Republic it was customary for candidates for the presidency to make no statement concerning their aspirations to high office. It would have destroyed all chances had they revealed a cherished conviction on any vital public question. Now and then exceptions occurred. So firmly established, however, did the custom become, that a politician's silence on problems of the commonwealth spoke eloquently of his intentions. If he attended the opening of schools and hospitals, the conferring of official honors, and like occasions and indulged in harmless specimens of rhetoric, his aspirations were undeniable. He stood above the noise and confusion of everyday political strife, thus showing his outstanding qualifications for an office that, theoretically at least, existed in a non-partisan world of its own

Commonwealth · Confusion · Conviction · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Rhetoric · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology