Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from December 2001

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from December 2001

The White House counsel's office. (Articles).
December 1, 2001... The White House counsel's office is at the hub of virtually all presidential activity. Its mandate is to be watchful for and attentive to legal issues that may arise in policy and political contexts involving the president. To fulfill this...

Lyndon Johnson, community action, and management of the administrative state. (Articles).
December 1, 2001... "The people I want to help," President Johnson told White House aide Joseph Califano, "are the ones who've never held real jobs and aren't equipped to handle them. They have no motivation to reach for something better because the sum total of...

The Office of Communications.
December 1, 2001... The Office of Communications is one of several institutions crucial to the start-up of the White House because of the central place of effective communications in a successful presidency. (1) The four presidents elected to a second term in the...

The little State Department: McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council staff, 1961-65.
December 1, 2001... In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and his special assistant for national security affairs, McGeorge Bundy, began a fundamental transformation of the National Security Council (NSC) system and the role of the special assistant. A decade later,...

Congressional support of the president: a comparison of foreign, defense, and domestic policy decision making during and after the Cold War.
December 1, 2001... With the end of the cold war, it seems unlikely that a broad domestic consensus will arise concerning the role of the United States in the newly emerging international order. Charles Kegley (1993), for instance, believed that the end of the...

Losing control: the intraparty consequences of divided government.
December 1, 2001... The divided government literature has focused primarily on two hypotheses: that divided government changes the productivity of government and that it creates increased hostility between the parties. (1) Mayhew's work (1991), which compares the...

The two presidencies, 1984-98: a replication and extension. (Research Note).(presidential foreign and domestic policies)
December 1, 2001... Since World War II, Presidents have had much greater success in controlling the nation's defense and foreign policies than in dominating its domestic policies. --Aaron Wildavsky (1966) Wildavsky (1966) contended that in the United...

The contemporary presidency: the pressures of White House work life: "naked in a glass house". (Features).
December 1, 2001... "When they come to the White House there's no forty-hour week and they shouldn't expect it," said President Gerald Ford. (1) "It has to be almost a twenty-four-hour-a-day job for both the President and the staff." The White House is a place...

The law: the "protective return" pocket veto: presidential aggrandizement of constitutional power.
December 1, 2001... In recent decades, students of the presidency have debated with no little fervor the extent to which the institution has become more imperial, especially and most importantly in the realm of constitutional authority. Many have argued that...

The polls: change and stability in public assessments of personal traits, Bill Clinton, 1993-99.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Bill Clinton's tenure as president was, on one hand, propitious and lucky, with the nation generally at peace and prosperous. But his tenure was also marked by scandal. Few presidents have been put under such close public scrutiny for their...

Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness. By Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 425 pp. As the title clearly asserts, this book draws a...

Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership. By David Gergen. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 383 pp. David Gergen has served in the administrations of four presidents: Republicans Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan and...

The Political Philosophy of James Madison. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Political Philosophy of James Madison. By Garrett Ward Sheldon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 123 pp. Garrett Ward Sheldon argues that James Madison's political beliefs were heavily influenced by his religious...

Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda. By Patricia Heidotting Conley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 220 pp. In a democracy, elections serve at least two fundamental purposes. The first is to select...

The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election. By James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 283 pp. In an era of partisan parity, a variety of factors combine to determine electoral...

From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. By William C. Berman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 141 pp. From the Center to the Edge is a brief and readable political history of the Clinton...

The American Presidents: Heroic Leadership from Kennedy to Clinton. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The American Presidents: Heroic Leadership from Kennedy to Clinton. By Jon Roper. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. 246 pp. Jon Roper of the Department of American Studies, University of Wales, Swansea, has written an...

Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. By Kendrick A. Clements. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 332 pp. Herbert Hoover played a major role in forwarding a view about our natural resources that many...

Dissertation prize. (Announcements).
December 1, 2001... The Center for Presidential Studies, Policy & Governance in the George Bush School of Government and Public Service announces the sixth annual national competition for the best dissertation on the American presidency. The competition is open to...