Understanding power through Watergate : the Washington collective power dynamics / Tian-jia Dong
- Bib ID:
- 3571750
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dong, Tian-jia
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2005
- ix, 163 p. : 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0761831533
- 0761831541
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction: The Arrogance of Power 1
- The Interpersonal Construction of the Presidential Power 1
- Nixon and the Republican Party 3
- Nixon and Congress 7
- The Nixon Way of Dealing with Enemies 10
- The Story Line of This Book 11
- 1 The Interpersonal Power Dynamics Inside Washington 15
- The Institutional Role Playing of the FBI and the CIA 15
- The Institutional Function of the Justice Department 20
- The Patman Investigation 22
- The Media and Public Reactions 28
- Nixon at the Zenith of His Institutional Power 30
- 2 The Formation of Washington Collective Power Dynamics 33
- The Creation of the Ervin Committee 33
- The Immediate Impact 41
- The Gray Hearing 44
- The Sirica Factor 46
- 3 The Strength of the Washington Collective Power 50
- The Watergate Burglary Trial 50
- Breaking McCord 52
- The Dean Defection 55
- As the Collective Power Dynamics Turned 59
- The "April 30th Explosion" and the Nixon Presidency
- on Its Deathbed 61
- The Patterned (but Unorganized) Collective Process of Power 64
- 4 The Difficulty of Genuine Communication in a Mass Society 71
- Reaching-Out: Connecting Washington to the Nation 71
- The Ervin Committee Hearings 75
- The Way Things Were 79
- "Saturday Night Massacre" 84
- 5 The Difficulty of Uncoupling Inside Washington 90
- The End of the Ervin Committee Hearings 90
- The Tape Transcripts 93
- Power Maneuvering 96
- Further Amassing Collective Power Inside Washington 99
- 6 The Final Advancement of the Washington Collective Power 105
- Reframing: The Senate Select Committee's Final Report 105
- "Fragile Coalition" 106
- The Supreme Court Ruling on Executive Privilege 109
- The Televised Debate 112
- The Final Advancement 118
- Conclusion: Toward a Neo-Progressivism 123
- The Conservative Perspective 123
- The Liberal Perspective 124
- The Radical Left Perspective 125
- The Critical Left Perspective 126
- What Really Worked?-The Social Embeddedness of
- Political Institutions 127
- System Worked, but for Whom-Weapons of the Strong 132
- Toward a Neo-Progressivism 136
- Appendix. Methodological Discussions 141
- The Qualitative Method in General 141
- Theory Elaboration Methodology 142
- Issues of Validity and Reliability 144
- The Story-Line Strategy 145
- Sensitizing Concepts 147
- Secondary Data 148
- Open-Ended Research 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index.
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- Until 2071 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2001
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1984
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