How To Define Going Public

Before talking about the history of going public, one must define and understand what the idea entails. Going public requires more than just leadership abilities of the president (Eshbaugh-Soha), although showing effective leadership is a part of building the foundation for the ability to go public. In his article “Going Public and Presidential Leadership,” Mathew Eshbaugh-Soha describes the term as using speech on a large scale, in order to impact the beliefs, choices, and views of others (Eshbaugh-Soha). Another way to define going public, as used by Samuel Kernell in his book “Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership,” is gaining support through self-promotion and endorsement of the president’s ideas through “appealing directly