Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2009

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2009

Introduction to the symposium on "the administrative presidency".(Essay)
March 1, 2009... The term "administrative presidency" was coined by Richard Nathan in his 1983 book of that title to describe the efforts of the Richard M. Nixon White House to gain control of the federal administrative apparatus. Nixon wanted the bureaucracy...

The administrative presidency, unilateral power, and the unitary executive theory.(examination of the president's influence over the bureaucracy)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... The essays in this symposium examine the administrative presidency strategy. That leadership strategy originally was initiated by the Richard M. Nixon administration as an attempt to accomplish administratively what it could not do...

The Administrative Presidency and bureaucratic control: implementing a research agenda.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... A quarter century ago, Richard Nathan (1983) called renewed attention to the phenomenon of the "administrative presidency." In describing the strategies of the inner circles of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan as they sought to enhance the...

Administrative politics and the public presidency.(effect of the presidents' public relations on administrative politics)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... President George W. Bush initiated several major policy reversals that involve administrative politics. For example, in June 2002, he gave a national address promoting the creation of a Department of Homeland Security after having long opposed...

The appointments process and the administrative presidency.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... As with most aspects of the Constitution, the power of presidents to hire, fire, and otherwise create an administration consistent with presidential tastes leaves much to the imagination. Much of the definition of appointive and dismissal...

Revisiting the administrative presidency: policy, patronage, and agency competence.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... Recent episodes of presidential politicization of the executive branch present a quandary for administrative presidency scholars. (1) While existing work on the politics of appointments assumes that appointed positions are intended to enhance...

Organizational complexity and coordination dilemmas in U.S. executive politics.(the United States Presidents' use of constitutional powers to control administrative agencies)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... American presidents are capable of imposing their will on administrative agencies. Perhaps the most powerful illustration of this has been the centralization of major executive branch regulatory review procedures through Executive Order nos....

Back to the future? Toward revitalizing the study of the administrative presidency.(limitations of prior research on administrative presidency)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... When the term "administrative presidency" was first coined by Richard Nathan (1983), it was focused largely on presidents selecting political appointees who shared their policy aims and wished to alter organizational structures, personnel...

The contemporary presidency: constitutional reform and the presidency: the recent effort to repeal the natural-born citizen requirement.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution states, "No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President."...

The law: the Baker-Christopher War Powers Commission.(recommendations of the James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher led National War Powers Commission)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... In an op-ed piece published in the New York Times on July 8, 2008, former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher summarize the findings and recommendations of the National War Powers Commission. The article begins on...

Polls and elections: how did the primary vote forecasts fare in 2008?
March 1, 2009... This study compares the leading presidential primary vote forecasts for a common set of candidates and nomination campaigns through 2008. Primary vote forecast models are valuable diagnostic tools. They tell us something about what we know and...

A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election. Edited by David E. Campbell. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 308 pp. The essays in this volume cohere around two questions: For whom, and in what ways, was...

The Rhetorical Presidency of George H.W. Bush.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Edited by Martin J. Medhurst. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. 207 pp. Some might argue that this book is mistitled. It could have been called The Anti-Rhetorical Presidency...

Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents. By Colleen J. Shogan. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. 223 pp. Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents has much to offer the contemporary student of rhetoric, presidential discourse,...

General Ashcroft: Attorney at War.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... General Ashcroft: Attorney at War. By Nancy V. Baker. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ix, 322 pp. In her first effort at studying the U.S. Attorney General's Office 16 years ago, political scientist Nancy V. Baker framed the...

Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy. By William C. Martel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 436 pp. William C. Martel, associate professor of international security studies in the Fletcher School at Tufts...

From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx, 393 pp. This is one of the best books I have read on the immediate post-World War II period and...

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-colonial Nationalism.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. By Erez Manela. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 331 pp. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin...