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I need help answering a Political Science Question that has to do with the book The Politics Presidents Make by Stephen Skowronek. In his text he states that we acquire both insight into the broader character of a president’s authority to change the status quo and into the concrete opportunities and constraints on leadership that a president’s authority to change the status quo and into the concrete opportunities and constraints on leadership that a president in office is likely to face.
The assignment is using the information from the book above as well as scholarly outside sources write an answer in which you locate previous president donald trump in “political time” according to Skowronek which is donald trump practicing the politics of disjunction while then moving to president joe biden identifying him as a third-generation preemptive president. The goal is 4 pages for each using Skowronek’s book as the primary source while then moving to scholarly online sources as main sources of evidence for biden and trumps insight to the broader characters, authority to change the status quo and the likely constraints on leadership the presidents are likely to face
Below are questions that are intended to help the flow of the writing when stuck, in no way is every question required to be answered but if a few of the points in these questions are implemented into the writing it would be perfect.
3. What is the political status of the Republican regime at this moment in time—resilient or
vulnerable? Does the party of Ronald Reagan appear to be undergoing a fundamental
reassessment of its political identity? On what basis do you reach your conclusion (what
indicators are you relying on)?
4. What is the reconstructive moment? What conditions lay the groundwork for the building of a
new regime and the dismantling of an old one? Is regime reconstruction still possible today?
Why?
5. What is the disjunctive moment? How important are crises to framing its politics and to
providing a litmus test for regime party competence and its fitness to govern? What is the
relationship of disjunction to reconstruction? Are there examples to which might you point?
How important is the timing of a crisis to successful disjunction?
6. According to Skowronek, what characteristics do disjunctive leaders share? Can you detect
them in the prior leadership of Donald Trump? Why or why not? Can you identify any additional
characteristics yourself?
7. What is secular time? What is institutional thickening? What role might these political forces
play in the unfolding of Joe Biden’s presidency in political time?
8. What is a “hard case” as Skowronek defines the term (pp. 45-49)? Skowronek identifies three
such cases in American presidential history. Do they exhaust the possibilities? Does Joe Biden’s
presidency fit one Skowronek’s three hard cases or suggest the possibility of a fourth?
