US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1506
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- ISBN
- 978-0-8131-6905-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This co-edited collection (130,000 words) is the first to consider the connections between United States presidential elections and foreign policy, addressing a gap in scholarly enquiry – especially by historians – on the domestic origins of American foreign relations. The work brings together 14 international historians from the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, each of whom examines one presidential election from between 1940 and 1992. The collection challenges the assumption that domestic rather than foreign matters, especially the economy, dominated electoral rhetoric and politics in the United States during this period. The co-editors and chapter authors argue that, because of the significance of the US in the global system and the existential threats posed to it by World War II and the Cold War, presidential candidates made foreign policy key planks in their campaigns, in order to reassure voters and to establish and maintain their own political authority.
Priest conceived the original idea for this project and proposed it to Johnstone, before the co-editors sought funding for a workshop that took place in April 2013 and brought together most of the contributors of the individual chapters. Priest produced the first draft of the introduction (7,000 words), which Johnstone then developed and edited, and they jointly oversaw the editorial process, including advising the authors on revisions to their chapters, through to publication. Priest also contributed an 8,000-word, single-authored chapter about the 1976 presidential election which explains why incumbent President Gerald R. Ford’s campaign focus on foreign policy issues was ultimately unsuccessful.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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