Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from September 2001

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from September 2001

Competing Conceptions of the First Ladyship: Public Responses to Betty Ford's 60 Minutes Interview.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... In recent decades, we have witnessed the rise of a women's rights movement and its contested development into a feminist movement. We have also experienced a conservative backlash, which has reinvigorated traditionalist conceptions of women as...

The White House Office of Presidential Personnel.(selecting presidential staff)
September 1, 2001... One of the first things that a president-elect must worry about is having in place an effective personnel recruitment operation.(1) This function is so important that the planning for it must begin well before the election, even though there is...

George Washington, Presidential Term Limits, and the Problem of Reluctant Political Leadership.
September 1, 2001... Every tradition grows ever more venerable--the more remote is its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe. --Nietzsche...

Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote.
September 1, 2001... Every four years, Americans experience the hoopla of a presidential election. A sideshow in this spectacle is the vice presidential nominees. Presidential nominees, party officials, journalists, and pundits all weigh the pros and cons of the...

The Chief of Staff.(duties of the White House Chief of Staff)
September 1, 2001... Political scientists have been interested in the structure, functions, and mode of operation of the contemporary White House since its creation in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in 1939 and especially since the publication of...

Almost Jeffersonian: U.S. Recognition Policy toward Latin America.
September 1, 2001... Since Latin American independence, U.S. presidents have consistently faced the issue of how to respond to domestic political conflict in the region. In particular, when unscheduled (and often unexpected) changes of government occur, should the...

The Contemporary Presidency: The Presidential Election of 2000: A Great Civics Lesson?
September 1, 2001... It is an axiom of politics, usually attributed to Otto Von Bismarck, that the public should never see the making of sausages or legislation. Perhaps in the light of the 2000 election, we should add to the list the casting and counting of votes....

The Law: Constitutional Understandings of the War Power.
September 1, 2001... The past few years have given constitutional students and scholars the chance to stake out positions on a number of high-profile and controversial topics. From the impeachment of the president and what constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors...

The Polls: Partisanship and Presidential Performance Evaluations.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... In the winter of 1998 and early spring of 1999, Democratic and Republican identifiers in the electorate were sharply divided on whether President Clinton should be impeached and removed from office. By more than two to one, Republicans favored...

The Prudential Presidency. An Aristotelian Approach to Presidential Leadership.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Prudential Presidency. An Aristotelian Approach to Presidential Leadership. By Ethan M. Fishman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. 138 pp. The intention of Ethan Fishman's The Prudential Presidency is to illustrate a "more comprehensive...

The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making. By Thomas Preston. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 347 pp. What difference do the personality, leadership style, and policy...

Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics. By Byron C. Hulsey. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 342 pp. Less a biography than an account of the Senate minority leader's relationship with...

Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition. By Patricia Lee Sykes. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 399 pp. Many institutional features of Anglo-American democracies are designed to limit...

With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power.(Review)
September 1, 2001... With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. By Kenneth R. Mayer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.293 pp. In this book, Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at the University of...

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. By Karl Frederickson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 336 pp. Political scientists and historians have often pondered, explored, and discussed the most...

The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon. By Garth E. Pauley. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 249 pp. Political scientists often question the utility of scholarship in rhetorical...

Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower. By Ronald R. Krebs. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. 171 pp. Finland hardly plays a role--yet alone a central role--in most studies of U.S. cold war...