About the Book
Updated for the 2004 Presidential Election season, this collection of essays provides a fascinating tour of the history, development, and current day issues facing the American Presidency. Some articles are ¿classic¿ scholarly analyses, some represent the best of current scholarship, and some are engaging journalistic insights into the nature of the contemporary presidency.
Table of Contents:
1. Constitutional Origins of the Presidency.
The Creation of the Presidency, Charles C. Thatch, Jr.
James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison.
Federalist No. 69, Alexander Hamilton.
Federalist No. 70, Alexander Hamilton.
To the Citizens of the State of New York, George Clinton.
2. Historical Perspectives on the Presidency.
The Strict Constructionist Presidency, William Howard Taft.
The Stewardship Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt.
The Public Presidency, Woodrow Wilson.
The Prerogative Presidency, Abraham Lincoln.
Toward a Modern Presidency, Fred I. Greenstein.
Presidency in the Political Order, Stephen Skowronek.
3. Selecting Presidents: Campaigns, Elections, and Mandates.
Re-evaluating the Electoral College, James P. Pfiffner.
Nomination Politics, Party Unity, and Presidential Elections, James E. Campbell.
Campaigning for Cash Amid Chaos? George W. Bush, Campaign Finance Reform, and Presidential Fundraising in 2004, Keiko Ono and Clyde Wilcox.
Party Favors, Robert B. Reich.
The Presidential Election of 2000, Gerald M. Pomper.
The Myth of Presidential Mandate, Robert A. Dahl.
The "Permanent Campaign," Hugh Heclo.
4. The Public Presidency: Press, Media, and Public Approval.
The Press and the Presidency, Mark J. Rozell.
Spin Control in the White House, John Anthony Maltese.
The Presidential Pulpit: Bully or Baloney?, George C. Edwards, III.
Public Opinion Polls: The New Referendum, Paul Brace and Barbara Hinckley.
Presidential Impeachment Politics, Richard M. Pious.
5. The Institutional Presidency.
The White House Staff, The President's Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee).
The President's Cabinet, Ronald C. Moe.
Locked in the Cabinet, Robert B. Reich.
The Changing Presidential Office, Hugh Heclo.
Can the President Manage the Government?, James P Pfiffner.
Bureaucracy in the American Constitutional Order, Francis E. Rourke.
Presidential Appointments and the Office of Presidential Personnel, Bradley H. Patterson and James P. Pfiffner.
6. The Separation of Powers.
Presidential Relations with Congress, Roger H. Davidson.
The Disappearing Political Center, Sarah A. Binder.
The Presidency in a Separated System, Charles O. Jones.
Is the Separation of Powers Obsolete? The Congressional-Presidential Balance of Power, Robert J. Spitzer.
Judicial Control of the Presidency: Stability and Change, Robert Dudley.
7. Domestic Policy Leadership.
The Hundred Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Power to Persuade, Richard Neustadt.
The Presidency and Domestic Policy: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Robert D. Loevy.
Presidential Management of the Economy, Donald F. Kettl.
8. Commander-in-Chief and National Security.
Invitation to Struggle: The President, Congress, and National Security, Louis Fisher.
The Demise of the War Clause, David Mervin.
[Iran-Contra] What Was Wrong, Report of the President's Special Review Board.
Making Foreign Policy: President and Congress, Thomas E. Mann.
9. Evaluating Presidents: Greatness and Abuse of Power.
Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government, Frederick C. Mosher.
Three Crises of Character in the Modern Presidency, James P. Pfiffner.
Being Liked and Being President, Paul Brace and Barbara Hinkley.
“If Men Were Angels..." Presidential Leadership and Accountability, Thomas Cronin and Michael Genovese.
“The Transformation of the Bush Presidency,” James P. Pfiffner.
