Presidential Studies Quarterly back issues from March 2001:
Lessons from Past Presidential Transitions: Organization, Management, and Decision Making.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Beginning with the Carter effort in 1976, the four transitions that have occurred to date share common elements: * transition planning activities undertaken before the November election, * organization of a postelection transition, * creation of teams ...
The Presidency and the Political Environment.(White House staff)
Mar 01, 2001; ... An effective White House staff, Howard Baker tells us, is an extension of the president. Drawing on their own experience, other White House veterans explain why. Richard Cheney sees a good White House staff as absolutely essential to a president's success. "A President can do a lot based ...
The White House As City Hall: A Tough Place to Organize.
Mar 01, 2001; ... When you enter your West Wing office for the first time, you are going to know right off you are in a world different from any you have experienced. "When you walk into the White House at the beginning of an administration, it is empty," commented Bernard Nussbaum, counsel to President ...
The New World Order in Theory and Practice: The Bush Administration's Worldview in Transition.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The new world order is a concept that emerged prominently three times in the twentieth century. Woodrow Wilson sought to create a new world order after World War I only to find that the world, as well as the U.S. Senate, was not ready for his brand of idealism. During World War II, ...
Causes of Change in National Security Processes: Carter, Reagan, and Bush Decision Making on Arms Control.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The structure of national security decision making at the presidential level is one of the most crucial, yet often neglected, aspects of the study of the presidency. Since the 1980s, neorealist and neoliberal theories that focus on system-level causes of state behavior have become the ...
Reform As Affirmation: Jimmy Carter's Executive Branch Reorganization Effort.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The paradox of the modern presidency is that while each administration is an idiosyncratic product of personality, context, and group dynamics, presidents tend to behave and perform in similar ways. Scholars' tendency to concentrate on the similarities that cut across administrations ...
The Contemporary Presidency: The Presidential "Hundred Days": An Overview.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The "Hundred Days" of 1933, a term the American media had borrowed from French history, was used to denote Franklin D. Roosevelt's great success with Congress in and after that year's banking crisis. Ever since, the term has been used analogically by journalists to measure the ...
The Law: Presidential Memoranda and Executive Orders: Of Patchwork Quilts, Trump Cards, and Shell Games.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Two days after William Jefferson Clinton took office on January 20, 1993, he issued significant policy changes in several controversial areas. He did so not by introducing legislation or even by issuing executive orders but by promulgating presidential memoranda. By Friday, January 22, the ...
The Polls: Popular Views of the Vice President: Vice Presidential Approval.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2001; ... The vice president serves under the shadow of the president. The major rationale for the office is to provide for succession to the presidency in the case of the death or incapacity of the incumbent president. Other than presiding over the Senate and casting tie-breaking votes in that ...
Source Material: Presidents and Polling: Politicians, Pandering, and the Study of Democratic Responsiveness.
Mar 01, 2001; ... In our recent book, Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Jacobs and Shapiro 2000), we assert that there has been a decline in democratic responsiveness at the very top of American national govemment. The book raises a host of questions ...
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. By Fred I. Greenstein. New York: Free Press, 2000. 282 pp. Fred Greenstein is an unusual presidential scholar. He is at home with the details of presidential politics and administrations. The Princeton Alumni ...
In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive. By Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000. 230 pp. This work is the culmination of the authors' three decades of research into the world of political appointees and ...
Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power. By Charles M. Cameron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 292 pp. Students of presidential-congressional relations have long been interested in understanding the factors that affect the outcome of the ...
Modern Presidential Electioneering: An Organizational and Comparative Approach.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Modern Presidential Electioneering: An Organizational and Comparative Approach. By Jody C. Baumgartner. New York: Praeger, 2000. 230 pp. In recent decades, presidential campaigns and the way in which they are conducted have evolved very dramatically. Characterizing the changes ...
The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government. Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 288 pp. This is the first scholarly work devoted expressly to the Clinton scandal's effects on American government. It is a diverse ...
Lincoln Seen and Heard.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Lincoln Seen and Heard. By Harold Holzer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 226 pp. No American political figure is more recognizable than Abraham Lincoln. Created during the Civil War and elaborated during the decades after his death, Lincoln's image quickly became an ...
Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma.(Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma. By Vance R. Kincade, Jr. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 157 pp. Have pity on our poor vice presidents! This nation's first vice president, John Adams, called his job "the most insignificant office ever the invention of man ...
Erratum.(correction to article in vol. 30, no. 4)(Correction Notice)
Mar 01, 2001 ... In Sheldon M. Stern's "Response to Zelikow and May" in the December 2000 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly (Volume 30, Number 4), the page references to Philip D. Zelikow and Ernest ...