Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2003

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2003

From the editor.
March 1, 2003... In the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, scholarly journals frequently published research focusing on the previous presidential election. For various reasons, articles on individual presidential elections are now much less common. Most of what we...

In Memoriam.(R. Gordon Hoxie)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 1, 2003... The Center for the Study of the Presidency deeply mourns the passing in late October 2002 of R. Gordon Hoxie, Ph.D., who founded Presidential Studies Quarterly shortly after becoming the first president of the nonpartisan center in 1969. A...

Who wins? Campaigns and the third party vote. (Articles).
March 1, 2003... The conventional wisdom among students of elections is that the choices of voters are largely driven by powerful forces that have lasting effects from one election to the nextenduring political orientations and retrospective judgments about...

The impact of attitudes toward foreign policy goals on public preferences among presidential candidates: a study of issue publics and the attentive public in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
March 1, 2003... At each moment in history, every democratic government finds itself facing many national problems in need of solution, and as a result, a primary mission of government is formulating, proposing, evaluating, ratifying, and implementing policies...

The basic dynamics of the presidential nomination process: putting the 2000 races in perspective.
March 1, 2003... How did George W. Bush and Al Gore come to win the 2000 presidential nominations of America's two major political parties? Of all the dozens or even hundreds of persons who might plausibly have aspired to serve as the nation's forty-third...

The role of issues in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
March 1, 2003... What was the impact of issues in the 2000 presidential election? Does an examination of the issues shed any light on why the election ended in a virtual tie between the two candidates, with a very narrow popular victory by half a million more...

Suburban Voting in Presidential Elections.
March 1, 2003... This article examines the conventional wisdom that suburban voting patterns became increasingly favorable for Democratic presidential candidates from 1992 to 2000. Its genesis can be traced to a round table discussion of the congressional...

Rhetorical convergence and issue knowledge in the 2000 presidential election.
March 1, 2003... Both of us use similar language to reach an exactly opposite outcome. --Al Gore (presidential debate, October 17, 2000) Citizens often say that all politicians sound the same. While occasionally used as an excuse for apathy, this...

The Clinton 2000 effect in perspective: the impact of retiring presidents on their parties' chances of retaining the White House.
March 1, 2003... Shortly after Al Gore conceded defeat in the 2000 presidential election, he and President Clinton reportedly had a contentious meeting during which each blamed the other for the Democratic Party's loss of the White House. Given the strength of...

Presidential election polls in 2000: a study in dynamics.
March 1, 2003... The study of voters and elections has taught us a lot about individuals' vote choices and election outcomes themselves. We know that voters behave in fairly understandable ways on election day (see, e.g., Alvarez 1997; Campbell 2000; Campbell...

The contemporary presidency: postpresidential influence in the postmodern era. (Features).(political activity of ex-presidents)
March 1, 2003... George W. Bush's presidency may someday be remembered as a watershed in the future of the American postpresidency. During Bush's campaign, his father and former president George H. W. Bush provided his son advice and fund-raising firepower....

The law: President Bush's first executive privilege claim: the FBI/Boston investigation.
March 1, 2003... Executive-legislative controversies, and particularly the record of parallel prior oversight situations, warrant examination, for they illuminate how Congress and the president resolve one of the recurring central questions in the interaction...

The polls: state-level presidential approval: results from the job approval project.
March 1, 2003... In this article, I report on a new data set that recently has become publicly available, the Official State Job Approval Ratings Project. With support from the National Science Foundation, Thad Beyle, Richard Niemi, and Lee Sigelman collected...

Source material: "does this constitute a press conference?" Defining and tabulating modern presidential press conferences.
March 1, 2003... Shortly before Thanksgiving, when President Bush was in the Rose Garden granting his annual pardon to a turkey, he remarked on the apparent anxiety of the turkey. "He looks a little nervous, doesn't he," the president said to the assembled...

The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court.(Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts)(The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard A. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 266 pp. Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts. By Richard A. Posner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University...

By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Phillip J. Cooper. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xiv, 301 pp. By Order of the President is an important contribution to the emerging literature on the formal instruments of presidential power. Presidency scholars are,...

The Eisenhower Court and Civil Liberties.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Theodore M. Vestal. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 329 pp. The Warren Court from 1953 to 1969 is generally regarded as the most liberal in U.S. history. Despite the facts that eight of those years fell within President Dwight Eisenhower's...

The Politics of Moral Capital.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By John Kane. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 277 pp. John Kane's ambitious and thought-provoking book, The Politics of Moral Capital, focuses on the nexus between moral judgments and politics. Kane offers his work as a...

Covering Clinton: the President and the Press in the 1990s.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Joseph Hayden. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 149 pp. Readers interested in a summary of the many forceful journalistic critiques of Clintonism without the rabidity that characterizes much of the genre will welcome Joseph Hayden's Covering...

The Natural: the Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Joe Klein. New York: Doubleday, 2002. 230 pp. The title of Joe Klein's potentially fascinating yet frustrating account of the politics of the 1990s is noteworthy in two respects. Although Klein sketches a portrait of Bill Clinton that...

Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Paul A. Kowert. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 265 pp. Information is to decision making what fuel is to fire. Too much or too little can be equally devastating. In Groupthink or Deadlock, Paul A. Kowert examines the...

Allies and Adversaries: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Mark A. Stoler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 380 pp. U.S. and Allied military strategy for World War II has presumptive clarity, since we know how the Allies won. Events need not have developed in the ways we...

Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Kimber Charles Pearce. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001.173 pp. From 1948 until 1952, the Marshall Plan dispensed roughly $15 billion in loans and grants to European countries rebuilding after World War II. The plan...