Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from December 2005

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from December 2005

Accidental presidents: death, assassination, resignation, and democratic succession.
December 1, 2005... One of the commonly stated virtues of modern constitutional democracies is their capacity to ensure reliable and accepted methods of political succession through election (Calvert 1987). This essay focuses on one particular, though not...

Do early birds get the worm? Improving timeliness of presidential nomination forecasts.
December 1, 2005... One of the challenges that researchers forecasting presidential nominations must overcome is the ability to make their predictions in a more timely manner. Two models successfully forecast wins for Al Gore and George Bush as the respective...

History, collective memory, and the appropriation of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reagan's rhetorical legacy.(Ronald Reagon)
December 1, 2005... All human beings draw upon their understanding of the past in order to make decisions about the future, and political leaders are no different. Not only do political leaders use their conceptions of history to guide their policy making, but...

White House publicity operations during the Korean War, June 1950-June 1951.
December 1, 2005... The large literature on the growth of the public relations presidency emphasizes a variety of causes, including the changing conception of the role of the presidency in the political structure, the increased opportunities for "going public"...

Presidential signaling in a market economy.
December 1, 2005... The state of the economy is of vast importance to American politics. Election outcomes, policy adoption, and implementation are inextricably tied to it. Economic prosperity is also crucial to a president's political success. The public expects...

Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and the emergence of the president as party leader.
December 1, 2005... During the late nineteenth century, partisan presidential power took on a new form; in becoming party leaders, presidents began to act like twentieth-century presidents. Discrediting barriers to presidential ambition erected by the Jacksonian...

The contemporary presidency: polarization and White House/legislative relations: causes and consequences of elite-level conflict.
December 1, 2005... Partisan polarization is like the cell phone of American politics--ubiquitous, occasionally annoying, and often the cause of public policy pileups when distracted lawmakers swerve into oncoming legislative traffic. Like the omnipresent...

Elections: effects of the stand by your ad provision on attitudes about candidates and campaigns.
December 1, 2005... In a typical candidate-sponsored presidential campaign advertisement during 2004, President George W. Bush finished the ad by looking into the camera to pronounce, "I'm George W. Bush, and I approve this message." In other ads, a Bush voiceover...

The law: the executive branch and propaganda: the limits of legal restrictions.
December 1, 2005... The Executive Branch and Propaganda During the administration of President George W. Bush, a number of executive agencies have expended public funds to promote the president and his policies. In some cases, the efforts would appear to be...

Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. By Michael Comiskey. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 287 pp. Michael Comiskey's Seeking Justices is a compelling read for observers interested in the process of Senate...

The Nerve Center: Lessons in Governing from the White House Chiefs of Staff.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Nerve Center: Lessons in Governing from the White House Chiefs of Staff. Edited by Terry Sullivan. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 169 pp. The inner working of the White House is a topic of public fascination and...

America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. By Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 369 pp. Neo-conservative influence on American politics and foreign policy has been widely...

Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives. By Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman, and David K. Ryden. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 356 pp. At base, Of Little Faith is about President...

The Money Primary: The New Politics of the Early Presidential Nomination Process.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Money Primary: The New Politics of the Early Presidential Nomination Process. By Michael J. Goff. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 228 pp. As front-loading and ever-increasing dependence on campaign cash redefine the nature and...

Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War. By Steve A. Yetiv. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 288 pp. In Explaining Foreign Policy, author Steve Yetiv seeks "to develop and apply an...

The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression. By Robert E. Gilbert. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 288 pp. Surely the death of a child constitutes one of the worst tragedies that can befall any parent. But...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2005... William Howell's article entitled "Unilateral Powers: A Brief Overview" mistakenly contains on p. 429 a reference to Joel Fleishman and Arthur Aufses (1976). The relevant sentence should read: "As Justice Jackson recognized in his famous...