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The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
Kiron K. Skinner, Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza RiceThe Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The authors demonstrate how and why Reagan and Yeltsin succeeded in their political aspirations, despite—or perhaps because of—their apparent "policy extremism": that is, their advocacy of policy positions far from the mainstream. The book analyzes the viability of policy extremism as a political strategy that enables candidates to forge new coalitions and outflank conventional political allegiances.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is Julius Silver Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Condoleezza Rice is on a leave of absence from Stanford University, where she was a Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of State.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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1 Campaign Strategy
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2 The New South Rises: Competition for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1968
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3 Down to Political Defeat: Reagan's Inability to Break Ford's Coalition in the 1976 Primaries
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4 Reshaping the Domestic and International Landscape, Part 1: The Long Road to the 1980 Presidential Election
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5 Reshaping the Domestic and International Landscape, Part 2: The 1980 Presidential Election
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6 Fighting the Nomenklatura's Privileges: The Rhetorical Campaign of 1986–88
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7 Yeltsin's Winning Campaigns: Down with Privileges and Out of the USSR, 1989–91
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8 Conclusions
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
- 978-0-472-02585-5 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03319-5 (paper)