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Umberto Eco, Meet Samuel Kernell

Umberto Eco, 2007: “Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.”

Samuel Kernell, 1986: “I call the approach to presidential leadership that has come into vogue at the White House ‘going public.’ It is a strategy whereby a president promotes himself and his policies in Washington by appealing to the American public for support.”

More on Samuel Kernell.

Posted by John Sides on November 26, 2007 04:24 PM |

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While Kernell's work is a classic in the field of Presidential Scholarship, the more recent work by George Edwards, On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit, suggests this is a losing and divisive strategy.

Posted by: Phillip Ardoin | November 28, 2007 07:03 PM