Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from September 2002

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from September 2002

Assessing changing views of the President: revisiting Greenstein's Children and Politics. (Articles).(Fred Greenstein)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... How do children view the presidency? This question drew a good deal of attention in the 1960s, as best represented by the work of Fred Greenstein. Since that time, little effort has been made to see what today's children think about the...

From the fabulous Baker boys to the master of disaster: the White House chief of staff in the Reagan and G.H.W. Bush administrations.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Introduction: The Significance of the White House Chief of Staff The Clinton presidency began with great hope and expectation. Political observers marveled at the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign machine as the war room concept of campaigning...

Harnessing conflict in foreign policy making: from devil's to multiple advocacy.
September 1, 2002... A large and alarming body of historical and laboratory evidence suggests that presidential decision making in foreign (and for that matter domestic) policy is plagued by a number of chronic impediments that may undermine the policy-making...

Executive-judicial interaction as a factor in explaining presidential policy making.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Despite the fact that presidents spend a considerable amount of time on foreign affairs, the president's ability to influence domestic policy continues to receive considerable scholarly attention and analysis. Studies have revealed that...

"Reflections of yesterday": George H. W. Bush's instrumental use of public opinion research in presidential discourse.
September 1, 2002... I believe that President Bush's attitude toward polls must have been about the same as it was toward speeches... that it was not legitimate, that it was not real leadership, that it was somehow phony and artificial. --Bush press secretary...

The president, the press, and the war-making power: an analysis of media coverage prior to the Persian Gulf War.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Edward S. Corwin wrote at midcentury, "Taken by and large, the history of the presidency has been a history of aggrandizement" (1957, 307). At least with respect to war powers, recent years only have bolstered Corwin's observation. The...

Projecting presidential personas on the radio: an addendum on the Bushes. (Research Note).
September 1, 2002... In our recent exploration of the personality, stylistic, and substantive dimensions of Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's Saturday rooming radio broadcasts (Sigelman and Whissell 2002), we ignored Reagan's immediate successor and Clinton's...

The contemporary presidency: the Bush White House: first appraisals. (Features).
September 1, 2002... When the disputed election of 2000 ended with the Supreme Court's decision on December 12, it effectively shortened the presidential transition to less than fifty days and complicated the incoming administration's personnel problems. Chief...

The law: when presidential power backfires: Clinton's use of clemency.(Pres Bill Clinton)
September 1, 2002... The Constitution generally requires Congress and the president to reach a consensus through the regular legislative process. However, President Bill Clinton will be remembered not for what he did with Congress but what he did without it. On a...

The polls: policy-specific presidential approval, Part 1.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Perhaps more than any other issue, presidents are held responsible for foreign policy. The literature on public approval of the president, however, focuses more on the impact of economics on presidential approval than foreign affairs. Two...

Source material: presidential data locator.(effect of public approval on congressional support)
September 1, 2002... The Question of Approval This inaugural edition covers one troublesome data element: public approval. Does presidential public approval affect congressional support? The answer to this question constitutes a conundrum. To practitioners,...

Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election.
September 1, 2002... By Jeffrey Toobin. New York: Random House, 2001. 297 pp. Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for the New Yorker and legal analyst for ABC News, has followed up his book A Vast Conspiracy (2000) on the Clinton-Lewinsky ordeal with Too Close to...

Innocent until Nominated: the Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process.
September 1, 2002... Edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001. 279 pp. Beginning with the Reagan administration, scholars began to pay more attention to the processes by which executive branch appointees are nominated and...

The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955.
September 1, 2002... By Shawn J. Parry-Giles. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 230 pp. The years immediately after World War II saw an enormous increase in the power of the executive branch. The demands of fighting the cold war led to the creation of a range of new...

From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War.
September 1, 2002... By David Reynolds. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. 209 pp. In this fine scholarly synthesis, David Reynolds revisits the subject of his first book, The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937-1941 (1981), following twenty years of...

Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
September 1, 2002... By Gary R. Hess. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001. 262 pp. Gary Hess, distinguished research professor of history at Bowling Green State University, has written a valuable book on three wars waged by the United States in the...

Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President.
September 1, 2002... By Robert Shogan. New York: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. 308 pp. Prior to writing this book, Robert Shogan had a long career as a political journalist for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. As his career progressed, however, he became more and more...

Selling the President, 1920: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising; and the Election of Warren G. Harding.
September 1, 2002... By John A. Morello. New York: Praeger, 2001. 112 + v pp. Like most professors who discuss politics with their undergraduates, I am often overwhelmed by my students' cynicism. "You certainly can't believe anything you hear from a...

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom.
September 1, 2002... By Andrew E. Busch. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 307 pp. Andrew E. Busch's Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom makes a significant contribution to the study of the U.S. presidency by focusing on ideology and its influence...

East Wing: Politics, the Press, and a First Lady: a Memoir.
September 1, 2002... By Mary Finch Hoyt. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2001. 242 pp. With a title such as this one, the reader expects to learn a lot about the political machinations from the perspective of the White House's East Wing. Yet the reader must be patient...