Bruce Miroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 701777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Miroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Miroff |
| SIGNATURE | MIROFF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9913-8795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Presidents on Political Ground
Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion
For several decades, political scientists have been studying the factors that enter into Americans’ evaluations of presidents. The coin of the realm for this endeavor has been the readily available
Thomas J. Knock. The Rise of a Prairie Statesman
George McGovern’s place in recent American history evokes sharply conflicting assessments: feckless landslide loser for his conservative critics, lifelong champion of the progressive cause for his liberal admirers. Until now, what McGovern, who died in 2012, has lacked has been a comprehensive scholarly biography that takes us beyond one-dimensional understandings. In The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern, the fir…
Rethinking Presidential Studies through Historical Research
Jean M. Yarbrough. Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition
Jean M. Yarbrough is less interested in Theodore Roosevelt as an iconic political leader than as an unduly neglected political thinker. A political theorist who holds an “originalist” perspective on republican constitutionalism rather than an intellectual historian, Yarbrough does not examine Roosevelt's ideas in the context of his own times but compares them with the principles of the founders whom he most admired. Looking forward as well as bac…
Response to Thomas A. Spragens's review of The Liberals' Moment
Before I respond to Thomas Spragens's commentary on my book, I want to thank him for the thoughtful and gracious tenor of his review. Despite our differences about the legacy of the McGovern campaign of 1972, we agree that the campaign was a watershed in the development of contemporary liberalism and that it deserves reexamination by those who seek to address liberalism's future in American politics
Barack Obama's America
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
Journal Article The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin T. Lim Get access The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bushby Elvin T. Lim. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. 208pp. $24.95. Bruce Miroff Bruce Miroff State University of New York, Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Response to Kenneth Baer and Elaine Kamarck
A response to reviews of my book, The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party, written by Kenneth Baer and Elaine Kamarck
Movement Activists and Partisan Insurgents
On the opening day of the 1972 Democratic convention, the women's caucus gave George McGovern a standing ovation. Its first meeting was packed, with 700 female delegates in attendance, exuberant over their numbers at the convention—triple the representation from four years earlier—and their new clout in presidential politics. Of all of the presidential candidates appearing, only Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for presid…
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Adam Sheingate has made an important contribution to the literature on political entrepreneurship. He takes a concept that has been widely but casually employed by political scientists studying institutions and policies and sets out to supply that concept with clarity and content. Appropriating the concept for historical institutionalism, he connects the role of the political entrepreneur to the processes of institutional change, posing a powerfu…
Rivals for Power
Journal Article Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, by James A. Thurber, ed. Get access Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations edited by James A. Thurber. Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996. 267 pp. Paper, $24.95. Bruce Miroff Bruce Miroff State University of New York, Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue …
The Kennedy Persuasion
Icons of Democracy
Icons of Democracy
Journal Article Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats. By Bruce Miroff. (New York: BasicBooks, 1993. x, 422 p. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-08747-7.) Get access Thomas C. Reeves Thomas C. Reeves University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1421–1422, https://doi.…
Icons of Democracy
Ronald Reagan & American Political Culture Reagan Speaks
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton described, and attempted to be, an aristocratic yet visionary statesman. Hamilton's statesman would resist and rise above popular prejudices and passions; occupying a commanding eminence, he would plan grand projects for the nation's future. His architectonic vision detailed instruments for efficient action: the energetic executive and the administrative state. Having shaped these powerful tools, he turned them to economic use,…
John Adams
While John Adams has been viewed in recent decades as an archetypal American-conservative or an anachronistic founder wedded to European models of mixed government, many of the distinctive themes in his thought can best be illuminated when he is linked to the classical republican tradition. Concluding that disinterestedness was too rare to preserve a republic, and that ambition and avarice perpetually threatened to undermine it, Adams looked to t…
Participatory and Workplace Democracy
Watching Ronald Reagan
Utilizing open-ended, in-depth interviews, this article explores the reactions of viewers shortly after they watched a televised press conference and an address to the nation by President Reagan. The majority of our subjects chose from two alternate value systems and images of America, and evaluated Reagan's performances in light of those values and images. Perceptions of the president's character and competence differed according to the subjects…
Presidential Leverage over Social Movements
Presidential Campaigns
Beyond washington
Pragmatic Illusions
Presidential Leverage over Social Movements
Watching Ronald Reagan
Utilizing open-ended, in-depth interviews, this article explores the reactions of viewers shortly after they watched a televised press conference and an address to the nation by President Reagan. The majority of our subjects chose from two alternate value systems and images of America, and evaluated Reagan's performances in light of those values and images. Perceptions of the president's character and competence differed according to the subjects…
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Adam Sheingate has made an important contribution to the literature on political entrepreneurship. He takes a concept that has been widely but casually employed by political scientists studying institutions and policies and sets out to supply that concept with clarity and content. Appropriating the concept for historical institutionalism, he connects the role of the political entrepreneur to the processes of institutional change, posing a powerfu…
Icons of Democracy
John Adams
While John Adams has been viewed in recent decades as an archetypal American-conservative or an anachronistic founder wedded to European models of mixed government, many of the distinctive themes in his thought can best be illuminated when he is linked to the classical republican tradition. Concluding that disinterestedness was too rare to preserve a republic, and that ambition and avarice perpetually threatened to undermine it, Adams looked to t…
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton described, and attempted to be, an aristocratic yet visionary statesman. Hamilton's statesman would resist and rise above popular prejudices and passions; occupying a commanding eminence, he would plan grand projects for the nation's future. His architectonic vision detailed instruments for efficient action: the energetic executive and the administrative state. Having shaped these powerful tools, he turned them to economic use,…
Johnson and Kennedy
Pragmatic Illusions
Journal Article Pragmatic Illusions: The Presidential Politics of John F. Kennedy. By Bruce Miroff. (New York: McKay, 1976. xvii + 334 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $9.95; paper, $4.95.) Get access Jim F. Heath Jim F. Heath Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 4, March 1977, Pages 1074–1075, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893711 Published: 01 March…
Pragmatic Illusions
Presidential Campaigns
Beyond washington
Presidential Leverage over Social Movements
Participatory and Workplace Democracy
Watching Ronald Reagan
Utilizing open-ended, in-depth interviews, this article explores the reactions of viewers shortly after they watched a televised press conference and an address to the nation by President Reagan. The majority of our subjects chose from two alternate value systems and images of America, and evaluated Reagan's performances in light of those values and images. Perceptions of the president's character and competence differed according to the subjects…
John Adams
While John Adams has been viewed in recent decades as an archetypal American-conservative or an anachronistic founder wedded to European models of mixed government, many of the distinctive themes in his thought can best be illuminated when he is linked to the classical republican tradition. Concluding that disinterestedness was too rare to preserve a republic, and that ambition and avarice perpetually threatened to undermine it, Adams looked to t…
Ronald Reagan & American Political Culture Reagan Speaks
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton described, and attempted to be, an aristocratic yet visionary statesman. Hamilton's statesman would resist and rise above popular prejudices and passions; occupying a commanding eminence, he would plan grand projects for the nation's future. His architectonic vision detailed instruments for efficient action: the energetic executive and the administrative state. Having shaped these powerful tools, he turned them to economic use,…
Icons of Democracy
Icons of Democracy
Journal Article Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats. By Bruce Miroff. (New York: BasicBooks, 1993. x, 422 p. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-08747-7.) Get access Thomas C. Reeves Thomas C. Reeves University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1421–1422, https://doi.…
Icons of Democracy
The Kennedy Persuasion
Rivals for Power
Journal Article Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, by James A. Thurber, ed. Get access Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations edited by James A. Thurber. Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996. 267 pp. Paper, $24.95. Bruce Miroff Bruce Miroff State University of New York, Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Adam Sheingate has made an important contribution to the literature on political entrepreneurship. He takes a concept that has been widely but casually employed by political scientists studying institutions and policies and sets out to supply that concept with clarity and content. Appropriating the concept for historical institutionalism, he connects the role of the political entrepreneur to the processes of institutional change, posing a powerfu…
Movement Activists and Partisan Insurgents
On the opening day of the 1972 Democratic convention, the women's caucus gave George McGovern a standing ovation. Its first meeting was packed, with 700 female delegates in attendance, exuberant over their numbers at the convention—triple the representation from four years earlier—and their new clout in presidential politics. Of all of the presidential candidates appearing, only Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for presid…
Response to Kenneth Baer and Elaine Kamarck
A response to reviews of my book, The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party, written by Kenneth Baer and Elaine Kamarck
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
Journal Article The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin T. Lim Get access The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bushby Elvin T. Lim. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. 208pp. $24.95. Bruce Miroff Bruce Miroff State University of New York, Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Response to Thomas A. Spragens's review of The Liberals' Moment
Before I respond to Thomas Spragens's commentary on my book, I want to thank him for the thoughtful and gracious tenor of his review. Despite our differences about the legacy of the McGovern campaign of 1972, we agree that the campaign was a watershed in the development of contemporary liberalism and that it deserves reexamination by those who seek to address liberalism's future in American politics
Barack Obama's America
Rethinking Presidential Studies through Historical Research
Jean M. Yarbrough. Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition
Jean M. Yarbrough is less interested in Theodore Roosevelt as an iconic political leader than as an unduly neglected political thinker. A political theorist who holds an “originalist” perspective on republican constitutionalism rather than an intellectual historian, Yarbrough does not examine Roosevelt's ideas in the context of his own times but compares them with the principles of the founders whom he most admired. Looking forward as well as bac…
Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion
For several decades, political scientists have been studying the factors that enter into Americans’ evaluations of presidents. The coin of the realm for this endeavor has been the readily available
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