Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2004

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2004

How public opinion constrains the use of force: the case of operation restore hope.
June 1, 2004... At some level, the political decisions preempt in these kinds of operations.... Everything that's done is political.--General Joseph Hoar, USMC (ret.) Former CINCCENT (1) In early 1991, Somalia fell into a state of civil war, precipitating...

A cognitive-psychodynamic perspective to understanding secretary of state Cyrus Vance's worldview.
June 1, 2004... The systematic study of images in political psychology, as it arose in the early 1960s, portrays U.S. foreign policy decision makers and diplomats as cold warriors, operating with a limited set of cognitive-driven impressions built around the...

The structures of national security decision making: leadership, institutions, and politics in the Carter, Reagan, and G. H. W. Bush years.
June 1, 2004... Virginia Commonwealth University Decision making for U.S. national security is not a static process. Presidents adjust their decision-making structures from time to time when they perceive that the standard interagency procedures no longer...

Democratic enlargement's value hierarchy and rhetorical forms: an analysis of Clinton's use of a post-cold war symbolic frame to justify military interventions.
June 1, 2004... American jubilation at the Cold War's conclusion masked significant unresolved strategic and rhetorical problems. Since the mid-1940s, "national security" had served as a profoundly unifying concept, yoking foreign policy, military decisions,...

Lincoln: a Weberian politician meets the constitution.
June 1, 2004... This essay addresses the question of how Abraham Lincoln attempted to reconcile competing demands he faced as president in an environment of extraordinary ethical complexity, demands that would have taxed any American president in such a...

Blue ribbons, black boxes: toward a better understanding of presidential commissions.
June 1, 2004... The delegation of political power has long been a central concern of political science. When, and why, do elected officials voluntarily give some of their own authority to others? In the past 20 years, this question has spawned a vast and...

The contemporary presidency: unity in the executive and the Presidential Succession Act.
June 1, 2004... Nearly three hundred tons of aircraft and fuel struck the east lace of the building at a speed of three hundred knots. The aircraft disintegrated on impact. No less fragile than a bird, its speed and mass had already fragmented the columns...

Elections: voter support and partisans' (mis)perceptions of presidential candidates' abortion views in 2000.
June 1, 2004... In August of 2000, a self-avowed fundamentalist Christian who had publicly pledged to "do everything in my power to restrict abortion" earned the Republican Presidential nomination in Philadelphia. (1) In an apparent attempt to diffuse this...

The law: must the Senate take a floor vote on a presidential judicial nominee?
June 1, 2004... On September 4, 2003, at the request of the nominee, President George W. Bush withdrew the nomination of Miguel Estrada for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. At that time, the Estrada nomination had been in the Senate for...

The polls: presidential traits and job approval: some aggregate-level evidence.
June 1, 2004... In a previous article in this journal, Cohen (2001) introduced time series measures of public perceptions of Bill Clinton's personal characteristics. Here, I explore the political impact of these perceptions, asking whether they affect the...

Source material: the truth is out there: the recently released NSC institutional files of the Nixon presidency.
June 1, 2004... This article reviews the recent release of material concerning the National Security Council by the Nixon presidential material staff in NARA. The new collection covers a wide array of issues relating not only to the structural and procedural...

The Lessons of Watergate: thirty years on.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Watergate: The Presidential Scandal that Shook America. By Keith W. Olson. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. 220 pp. Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective. By Louis W. Liebovich. Westport, CT:...

The Challenge of the American Presidency.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Challenge of the American Presidency. By Philip Abbott. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2004. 296 pp. Philip Abbott has written something less than a history of the presidency and something more than a series of biographies of the 42...

Power Without Persuasion: the Politics of Direct Presidential Action.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action. By William G. Howell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 239 pp. For 40 years, Richard Neustadt's work has dominated the theoretical landscape of...

Managing National Security Policy: the President and the Process.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Managing National Security Policy: The President and the Process. By William W. Newmann. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 272 pp. One morsel of Cold War wisdom that has survived intact in the new age of international...

Averting the "Final Failure": John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Averting the "Final Failure": John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. By Sheldon M. Stern. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 419 pp. The Cuban missile crisis is the most "over-studied" crisis in history....

Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: the Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. ix, 287 pp. William O. Stoddard...

The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion. By Janet M. Martin. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 350 pp. A century from now, perhaps a book called The Presidency and Women will be an assessment of the...

Living History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Living History. By Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 562 pp. Hillary Rodham Clinton's much-anticipated memoir, Living History, provides a personal account of her life from her childhood in a suburb of Chicago...

Meet the Candidate Videos: Analyzing Presidential Primary Campaign Videocassettes.(Video Recording Review)
June 1, 2004... Meet the Candidate Videos: Analyzing Presidential Primary Campaign Videocassettes. By John H. Parmelee. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. 127 pp. As technological advances create obstacles for campaign advertisements seeking to reach...

Images, Scandal, and Communication Strategies of the Clinton Presidency.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Images, Scandal, and Communication Strategies of the Clinton Presidency. Edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Rachel L. Holloway. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. 341 pp. Two primary challenges confront scholars who seek to say...