Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy

Download or read book Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy written by James W. Riddlesperger and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States. Covering a broad time period, the work takes a social scientific approach to the understanding of civil rights, utilizing both quantitative and archival research. The editors attempt to place and analyze civil rights in context—as a policy arena representative of broader presidential leadership concerns—and look at the development of civil rights policy since Brown v. Board of Education from the perspectives of (1) the public, (2) government institutions, and (3) particular policy arenas.