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This 11-page paper studies leadership qualities of John McCain and Barak Obama and postulates how each man might lead. Also under discussion is the leadership style of George W. Bush. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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to the presidency. These are reconstructive, preemptive, disjunctive and articulating. Before we continue, we need to realize that care needs to be taken not to lump Senators Barak Obama and
John McCain into one, or the other, of these categories. But given how both men have run their campaigns, we can get a good idea of how they might lead.
Lets define these four styles a little further. When describing the reconstructive president, Skowronek points to Theodore Roosevelt, with his bluff and
hearty demeanor and his desire to get America moving. Roosevelts order, Skowronek points out, offered "galvanizing support" for his regime (Skowronek, 1997, pg. 27). Roosevelt came into office following the
assassination of McKinley, came into office with the idea of Americas greatness and manifest destiny. Roosevelt did so, however, with a lot of bloodshed when it came to McKineys cabinet.
Preemptive leadership, on the other hand, doesnt necessarily uphold a specific political orthodoxy (Skowronek, 1997). Instead, it focuses on what Skowronek
dubs "mongrel politics," in other words, a mingling of a lot of categories and orders (Skowronek, 1997). In other words, preemptive presidents end up taking positions and stances from a
variety of different parties while promoting "their recombination in a loosely synthesized mix" (Skowronek, 1997, p. 449). Dwight Eisenhower was a master at this. More recently, so was Bill Clinton,
especially in his second term. Disjunctive leadership in the presidency is when the president casts aside the old way, casting everything
adrift (Skowronek, 1997). One president famous for this was John Adams - during his term as president, he fought to bring the federal government down on states rights, while reversing
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