Recently added articles from Presidential Studies Quarterly:
Memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies.
Sep 01, 2009; ... THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 21, 2009 SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Act A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, ...
Continuity, competence, and the succession of senate-confirmed agency appointees, 1989-2009.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The presidential power to appoint senior government officials has evolved from a few phrases in the second paragraph of the second section of Article II of the U.S. Constitution into an unwieldy and opaque system of rules and expectations. "The appointment power operates in a framework of ...
Sanctioning foreign policy: the rhetorical use of President Harry Truman.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Throughout his presidency, George W. Bush actively drew connections between the war on terror and World War II and/or the Cold War (see Chernus 2006; Ivie 2005; Noon 2004; Smith 2007). At the same time, Bush also drew parallels between his presidency and that of his predecessors. For ...
Crisis leadership of the Bush presidency: advisory capacity and presidential performance in the acute stages of the 9/11 and Katrina crises.(George W. Bush)(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... "There is no longer such a thing as strategy; only crisis management," U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sighed after the experience of the Cuban missile crisis. That surely was an exaggeration, but it does drive home the idea that the ability to respond quickly, sensibly, and ...
Reluctant liberator: Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of self-government and preparation for Philippine independence.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The United States was born in anticolonial rebellion, but in 1910, its former president exhorted the people of Sudan to submit to British rule forevermore. Theodore Roosevelt, addressing an American Presbyterian mission in Khartoum, declared the Sudanese to "owe a peculiar duty to the ...