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Winning It Back: Restoration Presidents and the Cycle of American Politics

Winning It Back: Restoration Presidents and the Cycle of American Politics

Crockett, David A.

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1501784951
ISBN13: 9781501784958
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Winning It Back, David A. Crockett explores why presidents who promise to set things aright--to restore--so often usher in the opposite.

Since the earliest days of the United States, presidencies have seemingly unfolded in a cyclical manner, with features from prior eras recurring in later ones. Building on the idea of political time--that presidential terms fall within particular regime cycles--Crockett shows that presidents often fall into one of two roles: opposition presidents and restoration presidents. Opposition presidents belong to the political party not representing the dominant governing philosophy of a specific political era--for example, Republican presidents during the New Deal era (e.g., Eisenhower, Nixon) and Democratic presidents during the Reagan era (e.g., Clinton, Obama). Restoration presidents, conversely, belong to the dominant party, come to power after opposition presidents and, as such, face the task of restoring the dominant party's governing agenda.

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