Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2001

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2001

Lessons from Past Presidential Transitions: Organization, Management, and Decision Making.
March 1, 2001... Beginning with the Carter effort in 1976, the four transitions that have occurred to date share common elements: * transition planning activities undertaken before the November election, * organization of a postelection transition, ...

The Presidency and the Political Environment.(White House staff)
March 1, 2001... An effective White House staff, Howard Baker tells us, is an extension of the president. Drawing on their own experience, other White House veterans explain why. Richard Cheney sees a good White House staff as absolutely essential to a...

The White House As City Hall: A Tough Place to Organize.
March 1, 2001... When you enter your West Wing office for the first time, you are going to know right off you are in a world different from any you have experienced. "When you walk into the White House at the beginning of an administration, it is empty,"...

The New World Order in Theory and Practice: The Bush Administration's Worldview in Transition.
March 1, 2001... The new world order is a concept that emerged prominently three times in the twentieth century. Woodrow Wilson sought to create a new world order after World War I only to find that the world, as well as the U.S. Senate, was not ready for his...

Causes of Change in National Security Processes: Carter, Reagan, and Bush Decision Making on Arms Control.
March 1, 2001... The structure of national security decision making at the presidential level is one of the most crucial, yet often neglected, aspects of the study of the presidency. Since the 1980s, neorealist and neoliberal theories that focus on system-level...

Reform As Affirmation: Jimmy Carter's Executive Branch Reorganization Effort.
March 1, 2001... The paradox of the modern presidency is that while each administration is an idiosyncratic product of personality, context, and group dynamics, presidents tend to behave and perform in similar ways. Scholars' tendency to concentrate on the...

The Contemporary Presidency: The Presidential "Hundred Days": An Overview.
March 1, 2001... The "Hundred Days" of 1933, a term the American media had borrowed from French history, was used to denote Franklin D. Roosevelt's great success with Congress in and after that year's banking crisis. Ever since, the term has been used...

The Law: Presidential Memoranda and Executive Orders: Of Patchwork Quilts, Trump Cards, and Shell Games.
March 1, 2001... Two days after William Jefferson Clinton took office on January 20, 1993, he issued significant policy changes in several controversial areas. He did so not by introducing legislation or even by issuing executive orders but by promulgating...

The Polls: Popular Views of the Vice President: Vice Presidential Approval.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The vice president serves under the shadow of the president. The major rationale for the office is to provide for succession to the presidency in the case of the death or incapacity of the incumbent president. Other than presiding over the...

Source Material: Presidents and Polling: Politicians, Pandering, and the Study of Democratic Responsiveness.
March 1, 2001... In our recent book, Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Jacobs and Shapiro 2000), we assert that there has been a decline in democratic responsiveness at the very top of American national...

The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. By Fred I. Greenstein. New York: Free Press, 2000. 282 pp. Fred Greenstein is an unusual presidential scholar. He is at home with the details of presidential politics and...

In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive.(Review)
March 1, 2001... In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive. By Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000. 230 pp. This work is the culmination of the authors' three decades of research into...

Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power. By Charles M. Cameron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 292 pp. Students of presidential-congressional relations have long been interested in understanding the...

Modern Presidential Electioneering: An Organizational and Comparative Approach.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Modern Presidential Electioneering: An Organizational and Comparative Approach. By Jody C. Baumgartner. New York: Praeger, 2000. 230 pp. In recent decades, presidential campaigns and the way in which they are conducted have evolved very...

The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government. Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 288 pp. This is the first scholarly work devoted expressly to the Clinton scandal's effects...

Lincoln Seen and Heard.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Lincoln Seen and Heard. By Harold Holzer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 226 pp. No American political figure is more recognizable than Abraham Lincoln. Created during the Civil War and elaborated during the decades after his...

Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma. By Vance R. Kincade, Jr. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 157 pp. Have pity on our poor vice presidents! This nation's first vice president, John Adams, called his job "the most...

Erratum.(correction to article in vol. 30, no. 4)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2001... In Sheldon M. Stern's "Response to Zelikow and May" in the December 2000 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly (Volume 30, Number 4), the page references to Philip D. Zelikow and Ernest R. May's "The Kennedy Tapes: Past and Future" are...