it may be time for a critical examination of theinstitutionof the presidency, quite
apart from the usual attention to the individuals that inhabit it.
Historical institutionalists, then, will not be distracted by wishful thinking about
diVerent personalities occupying executive power. If HI teaches us anything, it is
that the place to look for answers to big questions about class, power, war, and
reform is in institutions, not personalities, and over the longer landscapes of
history, not the here and now.
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