Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from December 1999

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from December 1999

Hard Times for Presidential Leadership? (And How Would We Know?).
December 1, 1999... Has presidential leadership become harder? The question itself raises numerous, and fundamental, boundary-defining questions. For example, how much time must elapse before we can say that a change is meaningful? The question clearly implies a...

A Time for Reckoning: Jimmy Carter and the Cult of Kinfolk.(President Jimmy Carter's family history)
December 1, 1999... Only seven months after Jimmy Carter was inaugurated thirty-ninth president of the United States, walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in a symbolic populist gesture of brisk commoner who disdained the "high-falutin" pretensions of limousine...

Presidential Campaign Quality: What the Variance Implies.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Although most commonly viewed as leader selection mechanisms,(1) presidential campaigns and elections serve many other purposes as well. They are also, for example, the principal means for ensuring democratic accountability (e.g., Key 1966;...

Serving Competing Principals: The Budget Estimates of OMB and CBO in an Era of Divided Government.(Office of Management and Budget; Congressional Budget Office)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Bill Clinton: "A real spending cut, a real revenue increase, a real deficit reduction, using the independent numbers of the Congressional Budget Office." LAUGHTER "Well you can laugh, my fellow Republicans, but I'll point out that the...

Constructing the Electorate during Presidential Campaigns.
December 1, 1999... A presidential election is more than a search for votes. It is also a search for the American people. Every four years, Republicans and Democrats traverse the nation's landscape searching for that odd concoction of attitude, party, race,...

Unilateral Action and Presidential Power: A Theory.
December 1, 1999... What are the foundations of presidential power? Almost forty years ago, Richard Neustadt (1960) offered an answer that transformed the study of the American presidency. Neustadt observed that presidents have very little formal power, far less...

Does Organization Matter? A Critical-Case Analysis from Recent Presidential Nomination Politics.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The significance of presidential nomination politics in the major parties is abundant and obvious as viewed through the lens of practical politics. This is no less than the process by which the parties set the choices to be faced by the...

The Polls: The Dynamics of Presidential Favorability, 1991-1998.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... During 1998 and early 1999, the months when scandal and impeachment plagued President Clinton, a disconnect was noted between his job approval and favorability ratings. Specifically, Clinton's job approval soared while his favorability ratings...

The Contemporary Presidency: Presidential Lies.
December 1, 1999... When in doubt, tell the truth. It mill confound your enemies and astound your friends. --Mark Twain The impeachment and trial of President Clinton raised in the nation's consciousness (and conscience) the issue of lies told by...

The Law: Executive Privilege: Definition and Standards of Application.
December 1, 1999... A core issue in the scandal that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton was the president's elaborate use of executive privilege. Although nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, executive privilege has a long history in presidential politics....

Source Material: Presidential Recordings as Presidential Data: Assessing LBJ's Presidential Persuasive Attempts.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... If presidents lead by persuasion, then how they communicate their ideas, with whom they speak, about what, and to what effect constitute the central evidence of leaders in action. Yet, because the modern presidency remains a closed institution,...

Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Decade of Transition: Eisenhozoer, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance. By Abraham Ben-Zvi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii + 219 pp., $47.50 cloth; $17.50 paper. In this millennial age, the civilization...

Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace. By Caroline Pruden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 368 pp., $35.00 cloth. In this millennial age, the civilization of the...

Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 216 pp., paper. Because of the voluminous declassified record on Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency that has developed...

John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy. By Richard H. Immerman. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999. 221 pp., paper. Because of the voluminous declassified record on Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency...

Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery. By Robert Busby. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 222 pp. Scandal, Robert Busby observes, is one of the hallmarks of the contemporary presidency. Media and...

The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. By Stephen G. Rabe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 257 pp. Following his well-respected book on the Eisenhower...

The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership. By John W. Sloan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 311 pp. Any discussion of Reaganomics is bound to provoke antagonists on the Left and Right, but Sloan promises a...

Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965. By David F. Schmitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 309 pp., notes, index. From Winthrop's "City on a Hill" to Wilson's...