Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2008

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2008

President Jimmy Carter.(EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)(Interview)
March 1, 2008... On May 18, 2007, I interviewed President Jimmy Carter in his office in the Carter Center in Atlanta. The thirty-ninth president granted me an unusually long interview, excerpts from which are printed here. GE: Mr. President, first, let me...

Superpresidentialism and the military: the Russian variant.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... In any type of polity, the relationship between the executive and the armed forces is a quintessential institutional link. In most democracies the control of the military is the shared responsibility of the president, his or her government, and...

The veterans' bonus and the evolving presidency of Warren G. Harding.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... Between July 1921 and September 1922, the administration of Warren G. Harding was embroiled in a prolonged dispute with Congress on the issue of cash compensation for veterans of the First World War. The "soldiers" bonus debate was not a...

Opening the president's mailbag: the Nixon administration's rhetorical use of public opinion mail.(Richard Nixon)(Essay)
March 1, 2008... The connection between presidential policy rhetoric and public preferences is critical to democratic government, especially if policy rhetoric potentially slips into noncongruence or misrepresentation (Jacobs and Shapiro 2000). Scholars have...

Theories about theory: theory-based claims about presidential performance from the case of James Madison.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... Of the forty-two individuals who have been president, at least one, James Madison, is widely recognized as a political theorist. (1) Another, Woodrow Wilson, received a PhD at a time when political philosophy was a standard part of the...

The presidential pork barrel and the conditioning effect of term.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... There have been numerous analyses of how presidential election rules and pressures shape campaign behavior. Shaw (1999) and Hill and McKee (2005) reveal, for example, that presidential candidates expend more resources in states with uncertain...

Why "go public"? Presidential use of nominees to the U.S. Courts of Appeals.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Essay)
March 1, 2008... The process by which judges are appointed to the U.S. Courts of Appeals has changed dramatically in recent years. Confirmation obstruction and delay of these nominees have steadily increased since the mid 1990s (Goldman 2003). The increased...

Constraining executive power: George W. Bush and the constitution.(The Contemporary Presidency)(Essay)
March 1, 2008... The Framers of the Constitution were influenced by their English constitutional heritage with respect to individual rights and drew heavily upon British precedents. With respect to governmental structure, however, they rejected British...

Treaty negotiation: a presidential monopoly?(The Law)(Essay)
March 1, 2008... United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936) involved a dispute over legislation passed by Congress two years earlier authorizing the president to impose an arms embargo in a region in South America. The issue was whether Congress had delegated too...

Is it "President" or "president" of the United States?(Essay)
March 1, 2008... Virtually every political observer who has used a pen or a keyboard in the past several decades has asked: is it "President" or "president" of the United States? Should the office or institution be referred to as the "Presidency" or...

Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age. Edited by Costas Panagopoulos. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 212 pp. In Rewiring Politics, Costas Panagopoulos poses a simple yet important...

Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. By Francis D. Cogliano. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 276 pp. In this insightful study, Francis D. Cogliano asserts that Thomas Jefferson quite actively sought to shape his...

Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 310 pp. An interesting and often perplexing fact about the founding of the American Republic is why Virginia, one of the...

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. By Gerald N. Magliocca. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 186 pp. In recent years, we have seen a boomlet of interest in Andrew Jackson and the...

Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933. By Mordecai Lee. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. 241 pp. The Bureau of Efficiency is, from the vantage point of contemporary...

The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson. By William E. Leuchtenburg. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xi, 668 pp. Political history has been out of favor among most academic...