Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2000

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2000

Divided Government and Democratic Presidents: Truman and Clinton Compared.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... Little consensus exists about the consequences of divided partisan control of American national institutions. Many scholars argue that with opposite parties controlling the presidency and Congress, the incentive for executive-legislative...

The President as Opposition Leader.
June 1, 2000... The Idea of Opposition Leadership In his masterpiece The Discourses, Machiavelli (1940) argues that, in addition to good fortune, the political leader needs for his "modes of procedure" to accord with the "needs of the times" (pp. 92-94)....

Fiscal Policy and Presidential Elections: Update and Extension.
June 1, 2000... According to two articles previously published in this journal, fiscal policy exerts a predictable effect on the outcome of presidential elections in the United States (Cuzan and Heggen 1984; Cuzan and Bundrick 1992). It appears that,...

Lincoln, Machiavelli, and American Political Thought.
June 1, 2000... Machiavelli offers crucial theoretical insights into the American presidency, as some of our leading scholars of the presidency have both implicitly and explicitly demonstrated. James MacGregor Burns (1956), for instance, drew on Machiavelli...

Theodore Roosevelt, Congress, and the Military: U.S. Civil-Military Relations in the Early Twentieth Century.
June 1, 2000... "Someone should kick... Rosevelt [sic]," complained one naval officer about the assistant secretary of the navy in 1898 (Davis 1898). Hunter Davis disliked Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to end the squabbling over status between the navy's line...

The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal: Fiscal Conservatism and the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1938.
June 1, 2000... When President William Clinton elevated deficit reduction to the top of his domestic agenda in 1993, he tapped into a long-standing Democratic tradition that was rooted in the 1930s. Liberalism and fiscal conservatism have been interwoven since...

The Law: The Clinton Impeachment: Untangling the Web of Conflicting Considerations.
June 1, 2000... The process of impeaching and removing a president is an insurance policy that was bequeathed to us by the Constitution's framers--in the hope that we would rarely have to use it. In the mere two attempts to date that reached a Senate trial,...

The Polls: Public Attitudes toward the First Lady.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The institutionalization of the presidency suggests that we need to view the presidency as a collective enterprise and not only from the perspective of the person in office. Among the many consequences of institutionalization of the office has...

Source Material: The White House Interview Program: Objectives, Resources, Releases.
June 1, 2000... "The White House is not simply a spoil of victory," observed Harrison Wellford, a former White House official and specialist on presidential transitions,(1) "it's the nerve center of the greatest government in the world and we ought to at least...

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. By Edmund Morris. New York: Random House, 1999. 874 pp. Because of the considerable attention the Morris book has generated and the mixed reactions it has received, Presidential Studies Quarterly asked two...

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2d ed). By Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow. New York: Longman, 1999. 352 pp. $19.69 paper. Essence of Decision was originally published in 1971 and quickly had a major impact on...

Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson. H. W. Brands, ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. 194 pp. $29.95 cloth. "The jury is still out," writes Robert Dallek in the first of seven essays on Lyndon...

Delegating Powers.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Delegating Powers. By David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 319 pp. $59.95 cloth. In Delegating Powers, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran set out to merge two competing schools of thought in the...

The Presidency of George Bush.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. xiv, 245 pp. 14 photographs. $35.00 cloth. In contrast to numerous studies of the Bush presidency, John Robert Greene presents a balanced...

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character. By Roger G. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 476 pp. $30.00 cloth. Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson is a comparative biography of three of the most fascinating and important...

Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy. By Sidney M. Milkis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 228 pp. $49.50 cloth. Those of us who study American politics for a living sometimes forget...

A Century's Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Century's Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World. Robert A. Pastor, ed. New York: Basic Books, 1999.415 pp. $32.50 cloth. Robert Pastor and a group of distinguished contributors have produced a valuable edited volume reviewing the...

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943. By Patrick D. Reagan. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. xxi, 352 pp. $40.00 cloth. The presidency literature has its own "big bang theory." Throughout...

The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965. By Russell L. Riley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 274 pp. $22.50 cloth. Russell Riley provides an interesting, well-written, and...

The Environmental Presidency.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Environmental Presidency. Dennis L. Soden, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 366 pp. $73.50 cloth. Dennis L. Soden's The Environmental Presidency is one of only a few books to focus on the presidency and a specific...

A New Data Set on Gubernatorial, Senatorial, and Presidential Approval.
June 1, 2000... As complete a collection as possible of gubernatorial approval ratings along with senatorial and state-level presidential ratings. Richard Niemi, Lee Segelman, and Thad Beyle have collected more than 2,100 gubernatorial ratings from all fifty...