Presidential Scholar George Edwards on Radioactivity Thursday

Share
George Edwards

How do context and persuasion affect the ability of presidents to achieve their goals?

One of the top presidential scholars in the country, George Edwards , spoke Thursday night at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. Host Rob Lorei interviewed him about the Trump presidency. Edwards has authored many articles and written or edited 25 books on American politics and public policy making. His latest book, Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership shows how the answers to a few questions about the context of a presidency can predict a president’s success in winning support for his initiatives. Edwards is a leading scholar of American politics, particularly of the American Presidency, authoring or editing 25 books and more than 80 articles and essays. He grew up in St. Petersburg, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

 

From Texas A&M University:

George C. Edwards III is a University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University as well as the Editor of the Presidential Studies Quarterly and Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

 

 

To listen back to this interview from Thursday, April 13 2017, click here.

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Former and current Florida legislators talk term limits at Tampa political forum

Listen: Over 30 years ago, Florida voters amended the state’s...

A man in a blue collared shirt, with rectangle glasses and a black hat. He has a short beard and is talking into a radio microphone with his left hand raised like a cobra.
Talking Florida’s rule changes on mushrooms and weed, with a side of strip clubs, too

For three sessions now, Carlos Hermida, who owns two hemp...

The Scoop: Fri. May 16, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Florida municipalities are now forbidden from fluoridating water after Gov....

death penalty florida
Glen Rogers is Florida’s fifth execution this year; the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops objects

The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops has repeatedly asked DeSantis...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Colors of Jazz
Colors of Jazz