Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from September 2003

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from September 2003

Introduction.
September 1, 2003... This special issue analyzes the impact of 9/11 on presidential power and constitutional government. To what extent does a "permanent war" against terrorism fundamentally alter executive power and the traditional system of checks and balances?...

Presidential greatness as an attribute of warmaking.
September 1, 2003... There lies behind the title of this essay a working assumption among students of the presidency of a direct correlation between presidential tenure during war and presidential greatness. President John F. Kennedy, according to Arthur...

Military tribunals: a sorry history.
September 1, 2003... On November 13, 2001, President George W. Bush authorized a military tribunal to try whoever provided assistance for the terrorist attacks of September 11 against New York City and Washington, DC. Vice President Dick Cheney supported Bush's...

The war power and its limits.
September 1, 2003... On March 20, 2003, the day after President George W. Bush initiated the war against Iraq, the following exchange occurred between a reporter and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: "QUESTIONER: Could you amplify a little bit on how...

Deference and defiance: the shifting rhythms of executive-legislative relations in foreign policy.
September 1, 2003... The presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush contrast in many ways, perhaps no more so than in their divergent experiences in dealing with Congress on foreign policy. Clinton confronted a Congress that frequently sought to defy his...

National security versus civil liberties.
September 1, 2003... Soon after the George W. Bush administration began crafting its response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, voices could be heard questioning the impact of its antiterrorism measures on civil liberty. The Patriot Act would give the...

Presidential authority to detain "enemy combatants".
September 1, 2003... President Bush claims the power, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, to determine that any person, including an American citizen, who is suspected of being a member, agent, or associate of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or possibly any other...

Organizing for homeland security.
September 1, 2003... During the latter half of 2002, a contest was underway over the organization of the federal government for homeland security. It had begun in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when homeland security came into popular...

The contemporary presidency: rating the Presidents: a tracking study.
September 1, 2003... In our article, "Rating the Presidents: A Tracking Study," published in the 1997 summer issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, we reported the results and analysis of the Siena Research Institute's first three presidential tracking studies...

The law: Walker v. Cheney: legal insulation of the vice president from GAO investigations.
September 1, 2003... The tenure of the Bush administration has thus far been characterized by an orchestrated policy of restricting congressional and public access to information from executive agencies and the White House. There are several prominent examples of...

The polls: searching for determinism: a comparative assessment of first term approval volatility, buoyancy, and polarization.
September 1, 2003... The search for a recurring trend in presidents' approvals has received much attention by presidency scholars--and for good reason. The identification of a deterministic seasonal pattern in approval has implications for the debate between the...

Source material: the White House and the press: news organizations as a presidential resource and as a source of pressure.
September 1, 2003... News organizations represent a source of pressure on a president and also serve as an important resource as he seeks to govern. In the 1990s and now in the new century, a president can expect to answer the queries of reporters two or three...

Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Ethan Fishman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. 225 pp. Although in many ways it is our most natural phenomenon for analysis, political scientists have largely abandoned the study of political leadership. Occasionally, we study...

The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By David A.Crockett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 286 pp. In The Opposition Presidency, David A. Crockett encourages us to think hard about the meaning of presidential success. Insisting that we should not expect...

American Empire: the Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Andrew J. Bacevich. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 302 pp. American Empire challenges the notion of the United States as a nation innocent of imperial pretensions and calls upon each and every one of us to think...

The First Cold War: the Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xxii Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xxiii, 329 pp. Although periodization in history is not...

The Clinton Wars: the Constitution, Congress and War Powers.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Ryan C. Hendrickson. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. 240 pp. The war in Iraq has had the unfortunate consequence of leading politicians, pundits, and political scientists alike to conflate the first Iraq conflict--led...

Popular Justice: Presidential Prestige and Executive Success in the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Jeff Yates. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. 131 pp. Political scientists have been prolific in producing studies devoted to understanding particular branches of government but less so when it comes to studies...

Organizing the Presidency.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... 3rd ed. By Stephen Hess with James P. Pfiffner. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 286 pp. The third edition of Organizing the Presidency marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication. During those years,...

Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical?(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By G. Calvin Mackenzie with Michael Hafken. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 196 pp. Scandal Proof is a straightforward piece of scholarship that offers serious suggestions for the reform of federal ethics regulation. Its...

Pulp Politics: How Political Advertising Tells the Stories of American Politics.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Glenn W. Richardson, Jr. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 161 pp. Pulp Politics is largely a homage to political advertising. In this comprehensive review of contemporary television advertisements, which includes detailed...

Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin Medhurst. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 221 pp. Presidential Speechwriting is a compendium of eight essays on the speechwriting strategies of nine presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt...