Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2007

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2007

Rhetoric of atrocities: the place of horrific human rights abuses in presidential persuasion efforts.
June 1, 2007... Over the course of the last fifteen years, rape rooms, concentration camps, and pillaged incubators have become symbolic embodiments of regimes confronted by America. When arguing their case for war, presidents have turned to visually evocative...

Two parties, two types of nominees, two paths to winning a presidential nomination, 1972-2004.
June 1, 2007... Since 1972, the story of who wins a party's presidential nomination has not had one simple storyline: the early frontrunner wins. Instead, there appears to be two: early Republican frontrunners easily become the nominee; Democratic nominees...

Agreeable administrators? Analyzing the public positions of cabinet secretaries and presidents.
June 1, 2007... To what extent do cabinet secretaries take public positions in agreement with the president on legislation before Congress? There is substantial debate over the political control of appointed administrators between Congress and the president...

Policy speech in the nineteenth century rhetorical presidency: the case of Zachary Taylor's 1849 tour.
June 1, 2007... Few books have had a greater influence on the study of the historical development of the American presidency than Jeffrey Tulis's The Rhetorical Presidency (1987). Of the books published in the last quarter century, perhaps only Stephen...

An evaluation of the Bush administration reforms to the regulatory process.(George W. Bush)
June 1, 2007... The first term of the Bush administration was a busy time for aficionados of regulatory policy. In addition to heated debates on a number of substantive issues (such as the control of mercury emissions and the requirement that employers pay...

The "hidden hand" and White House roll-call predictions: legislative liaison in the Eisenhower White House, 83d-84th Congresses.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Report)
June 1, 2007... The backdrop to voting dynamics in Congress in the early post-World War II era contrasts mightily to the partisanship that characterizes legislative politics on Capitol Hill in the new millennium. In the halcyon days of the 1950s, lack of party...

The contemporary president: should the Senate take a floor vote on a presidential judicial nominee?
June 1, 2007... In his first term, President George W. Bush argued that the Senate ought to hold final up-or-down floor votes on all of his judicial nominations rather than use various parliamentary procedures, most notably filibusters, to prevent such action....

Elections: debating the 1976 debates: establishing a tradition of negotiations.
June 1, 2007... After a 16-year absence, debates returned to presidential campaigning in 1976, The 1976 election, like the 1960 election, was a relatively close election, though it certainly did not appear that way at the beginning of the general election...

The law: unilaterally shaping U.S. national security policy: the role of National Security Directives.
June 1, 2007... The president has at his disposal an array of tools to prescribe policy for the executive branch and, in some instances, to effect policy change unilaterally. These include executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, executive agreements,...

Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back into the Constitution.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back into the Constitution. Edited by Christopher S. Kelley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 256 PP. As the introduction of Executing the Constitution indicates, "The...

The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy. Edited by Paul Kengor and Peter Schweizer. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 238 pp. In the Washington, DC of the 1970s, conventional wisdom dictated the inevitability of...

The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools 1965-2001.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools 1965-2001. By Lawrence J. McAndrews. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 306 pp. Since the early 1980s, education policy has risen on the national agenda in the United States....