Understanding the Presidency : 2004 Election Season Update
by Pfiffner, James P.; Davidson, Roger H.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
Updated for the 2004 Presidential Election season, this collection of essays provides a fascinating tour of the history, development, and current day issues facing the American Presidency. Constitutional Origins of the Presidency; Historical Perspectives on the Presidency; Selecting Presidents: Campaigns, Elections, and Mandates; The Public Presidency: Press, Media, and Public Approval; The Institutional Presidency; The Separation of Powers; Domestic Policy Leadership; Commander-in-Chief and National Security; Evaluating Presidents: Greatness and Abuse of Power. Anyone interested in the American presidency
Table of Contents
| Constitutional Origins of the Presidency | |
| The Creation of the Presidency | |
| James Madison to Thomas Jefferson | |
| Federalist No. 69 | |
| Federalist No. 70 | |
| To the Citizens of the State of New York | |
| Historical Perspectives on the Presidency | |
| The Strict Constructionist Presidency | |
| The Stewardship Presidency | |
| The Public Presidency | |
| The Prerogative Presidency | |
| Toward a Modern Presidency | |
| Presidency in the Political Order | |
| Selecting Presidents: Campaigns, Elections, and Mandates | |
| Revaluating the Electoral College | |
| Nomination Politics, Party Unity, and Presidential Elections | |
| Campaigning for Cash Amid Chaos? | |
| Campaign Finance Reform, and Presidential Fundraising in 2004 | |
| Party Favors | |
| The 2000 Presidential Election | |
| The Myth of Presidential Mandate | |
| The Permanent Campaign | |
| The Public Presidency: Press, Media, and Public Approval | |
| The Press and the Presidency | |
| Spin Control in the White House | |
| The Presidential Pulpit: Bully or Baloney? | |
| Public Opinion Polls: The New Referendum | |
| Presidential Impeachment Politics | |
| The Institutional Presidency | |
| The White House Staff, The President's Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee) | |
| The President's Cabinet | |
| Locked in the Cabinet | |
| The Changing Presidential Office | |
| Can the President Manage the Government? | |
| Bureaucracy in the American Constitutional Order | |
| Presidential Appointments and the Office of Presidential Personnel | |
| The Separation of Powers | |
| Presidential Relations with Congress | |
| "The Disappearing Political Center," | |
| The Presidency in a Separated System | |
| Is the Separation of Powers Obsolete? | |
| Judicial Control of the Presidency: Stability and Change | |
| Domestic Policy Leadership | |
| The Hundred Days | |
| The Power to Persuade | |
| The Presidency and Domestic Policy: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
| Presidential Management of the Economy | |
| Commander-in-Chief and National Security | |
| Invitation to Struggle: The President, Congress, and National Security | |
| The Demise of the War Clause | |
| (Iran-Contra) What Was Wrong, Report of the President's Special Review Board | |
| Making Foreign Policy: President and Congress | |
| Evaluating Presidents: Greatness and Abuse of Power | |
| Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government | |
| "Three Crises of Character in the Modern Presidency," | |
| Being Liked and Being President | |
| "If Men Were Angels...: Presidential Leadership and Accountability," | |
| "The Transformation of the Bush Presidency," | |
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