Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2006

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2006

2004 presidential election: an introduction.
June 1, 2006... This special issue on the 2004 presidential election marks the second time that Presidential Studies Quarterly has devoted an issue to articles on the most recent election. This journal plans to make this a quadrennial tradition, recognizing...

The Bush effect: polarization, turnout, and activism in the 2004 presidential election.(George W. Bush)
June 1, 2006... Americans are closely divided, but we are not deeply divided, and we are closely divided because many of us are ambivalent and uncertain, and consequently reluctant to make firm commitments to parties, politicians, or policies. We divide evenly...

Contributions and contributors in the 2004 presidential election cycle.
June 1, 2006... 2004 marked a very close presidential race accompanied by unprecedented mobilization and high rates of interest, attention, and participation by the electorate (Bergan et al. 2006). The 2004 election marked a record turnout of over 60 percent...

Partisanship, party coalitions, and group support, 1952-2004.
June 1, 2006... From the beginning of the New Deal to the end of the twentieth century, partisan conflict revolved predominantly around the fight for support among native white southerners, members of labor union and working-class households, African...

Hispanic voters in the 2000 and 2004 presidential general elections.
June 1, 2006... In the highly contested 2004 presidential campaign, Republican George W. Bush captured a slim majority of the popular vote (Federal Election Commission 2005). Bush received 50.73 percent of the vote compared to 48.27 percent obtained by...

Camelot only comes but once? John F. Kerry and the Catholic vote.
June 1, 2006... Before you drift to sleep upon your cot, think back on all the tales that you remember.... That once there was a fleeting wisp.... Don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot. ...

Religious influences in the 2004 presidential election.
June 1, 2006... Following the 2004 presidential election, journalists and pundits seized upon religion and public concerns about moral values to explain President George W. Bush's victory. While much of this "Wednesday morning" analysis oversimplified the...

Issue knowledge and perceptions of agreement in the 2004 presidential general election.
June 1, 2006... The importance of political information in the democratic process has long been debated. While some view political information as an indispensable component of a healthy democracy (Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996), others maintain that those with...

A war too far? Bush, Iraq, and the 2004 U.S. presidential election.(George W. Bush)
June 1, 2006... Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the issue of security was central to the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Much of the debate focused on the Iraq War of March-April 2003 and in particular...

Mr. Bush's war: foreign policy in the 2004 election.(George W. Bush)
June 1, 2006... The 2004 election was one of the closest and most bitterly fought in recent years. Though George W. Bush won by the smallest margin for an incumbent since Woodrow Wilson, he nonetheless went from a 543,000-vote deficit in 2000 to a winning...

The contemporary presidency: the "flying white house": a travel establishment within the presidential branch.
June 1, 2006... One Sunday morning in the spring of 1946, Harry Truman decided he should fly home to Missouri. He slipped out of the White House with a pair of Secret Service agents en route to nearby Bolling Field, where the presidential aircraft was kept....

The law: the CIA leak case indicting Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff.(Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby)
June 1, 2006... In June 2003, citing "two senior administration officials," syndicated columnist Robert Novak openly identified Valerie Plame as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) "operative" (Novak 2003). It did not take long before politicians in...

Relations between political appointees and career officials: principal-agent or moral equals?(Beyond "A Government of Strangers": How Career Executives and Political Appointees Can Turn Conflict to Cooperation)(Learning the Ropes: Insights for Political Appointees)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Beyond "A Government of Strangers": How Career Executives and Political Appointees Can Turn Conflict to Cooperation. By Robert Maranto. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 149 pp. Learning the Ropes: Insights for...

Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics. Edited by Emmett H. Buell, Jr. and William G. Mayer. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. 320 pp. Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics...

Presidential Candidate Images.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Presidential Candidate Images. Edited by Kenneth L. Hacker. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 249 pp. Presidential Candidate Images presents the efforts of a distinguished band of communications scholars to synthesize and extend...

Election Night News & Voter Turnout: Solving the Projection Puzzle.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Election Night News & Voter Turnout: Solving the Projection Puzzle. By William C. Adams. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005. 149 pp. When the National Commission on Federal Election Reform deliberated over how to improve the...

Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond. Edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin J. Medhurst. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.231 pp. Presidential speechwriting is an intense and grueling...

A Seat of Popular Leadership: The Presidency, Political Parties, and Democratic Government.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... A Seat of Popular Leadership: The Presidency, Political Parties, and Democratic Government. By Michael J. Korzi. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. 292 pp. Michael J. Korzi's book is a refreshing addition to the literature...

Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light. Edited by Mitchell B. Lerner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 303 pp. Presidential libraries contain millions of pieces of paper that take years for archivists to process...

Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy inside the Executive Office of the President.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy inside the Executive Office of the President. Edited by Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2004. 205 pp. One of the topics that...

Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy. By Steve A. Yetiv. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 239 pp. "Whatever the impact of September 11 and the Iraq War, one thing remains fairly clear: an overview of...

The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, and Loyalty.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, and Loyalty. By Alexander Moens. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. 227 pp. One of the ironies of the age of instant communications is that the flood of information and opinion may...