Presidential Studies Quarterly back issues from June 2003:
The joy of power: changing conceptions of the presidential office.
Jun 01, 2003; ... In the closing weeks of his presidency, Bill Clinton consented to an interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone Magazine. "I love this job," the president told Wenner, "and I love the nature of this work .... I got to deal with politics, policy, and governing, the three things that I ...
The Manchester Union Leader's influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican primary.
Jun 01, 2003; ... In a media environment dominated by large corporations answerable to stockholders, newspapers and television news programs are often criticized for being bland and inoffensive as they try to protect the financial bottom line (Picard 1998; Sanford 1999). No one, however, would ever make ...
Our chief magistrate and his powers: a reconsideration of William Howard Taft's "Whig" theory of presidential leadership.
Jun 01, 2003; ... William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh president of the United States, is primarily remembered as an insignificant leader serving between far more interesting presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. But Taft is also remembered as offering a rather different understanding of ...
Reassessing public opinion polling in the Truman administration.
Jun 01, 2003; ... Scholars have recently explored the origins of the institutionalization of public opinion polling in the administrative apparatus of the White House (see Jacobs and Shapiro 1995; Heith 1998; Eisinger and Brown 1998; Eisinger 2000). However, the development and utilization of public opinion ...
Evolution of the modern rhetorical presidency: presidential presentation and development of the state of the union address.
Jun 01, 2003; ... He [the president] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. --U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section III More than the founders ...
Presidential success in communicating with the public through televised addresses.
Jun 01, 2003; ... One of the president's most conspicuous and potentially powerful uses of the bully pulpit is the televised address to the nation. With these addresses, the president has the opportunity to enter homes throughout America to speak to people directly, unfettered by the news media's questions, ...
The contemporary presidency: communications operations in the White House of President George W. Bush: making news on his terms. (Features).
Jun 01, 2003; ... White House operations reflect the president whom the staff serve. His strengths are theirs and his weaknesses are mirrored in the organization. "Whether it's communications, whether it's campaigning, whether it's domestic policy, no matter what it is," said former chief of staff James A ....
The law: the constitutionality of congressional-executive agreements. (Features).
Jun 01, 2003; ... The limited attention to international agreements in the Constitution has created a void that has left students of American jurisprudence with little direction as to which situations require a Senate-ratified treaty and which situations can be dealt with by other agreements. In fact, ...
The polls: can presidential rhetoric affect the public's economic perceptions? (Features).
Jun 01, 2003; ... A small but important literature has found that major presidential speeches may improve the level of public approval toward the president under certain conditions (Ragsdale 1984, 1987; Brace and Hinckley 1992). (1) Ragsdale (1984, 980) reports that each major speech lifts presidential ...
Source material: toward the study of the first lady: the state of scholarship. (Features).
Jun 01, 2003; ... I hope that someday someone will take the time to evaluate the true role of the wife of a president, and to assess the many burdens she has to bear and the contributions she makes. --Harry S. Truman Getting right to the point, first ladies have done it all. ...
Children, mothers, and U.S. presidents.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. By Robert Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 266 pp. Faith of Our Mothers. By Harold I. Gullan. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001. 394 pp. In Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: ...
Presidents, the Presidency, and the Political Environment.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By John H. Kessel. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2001. 292 pp. This book was not what I expected, given its title. In fact, had it been alliteratively more appealing, The Presidency, the Political Environment, and Presidents would have been a better title since the ...
Presidents and the People: the Partisan Story of Going Public.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Mel Laracey. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 267 pp. Presidents and the People explores the deep historical roots of popular presidential leadership. Laracey challenges the view, made prominent by scholars such as Jeffrey Tulis, James Caeser, and Samuel ...
Governing from Center Stage: White House Communication Strategies during the Television Age of Politics.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Lori Cox Han. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001. 290 pp. Few books on the presidency and the news media are as ambitious in intent as Governing from Center Stage, in which Loft Cox Han seeks to present a comprehensive analysis of the public relations strategies of eight ...
The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By MaryAnne Borrelli. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002. 277 pp. In this very ambitious and important study, Borrelli sets out to understand how gender influences the politics of cabinet nominations in the United States. To this end, she conducts a longitudinal study of 23 women ...
Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Tevi Troy. New York: Rowman & Little field, 2002. 255 pp. Finally, there is a justification for those of us who spent years in graduate school while our college buddies were making money on the stock market. A Ph.D. might get not only a university appointment but also a job ...
The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2000.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.228 pp. The grave mistakes made on network news broadcasts during the debacle that was the coverage of Election Night 2000 were, as Farnsworth and Lichter illustrate, a microcosm of the ...
Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: the Court-Packing Crisis of 1937.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Marian C. McKenna. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. 612 pp. In her new work, Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War, Marian McKenna, a professor emerita at the University of Calgary, takes a fresh look at the court-packing controversy of 1937, an event ...
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Robert A. Caro. New York: Knopf, 2002. xxiv, 1167 pp. Early on in the third volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, covering the years from 1948 to 1960 and aptly titled Master of the Senate, Robert Caro pithily observes, "power reveals." He was referring, of course, to ...
Nixon.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By Iwan Morgan. London: Arnold, 2002 (copublished in the United States by Oxford University Press). 228 pp. This volume is part of a series entitled "reputations," the aim of which is to reconsider and reevaluate the reputations of major historical figures ranging from Henry II ...
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2003; ... By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 346 pp. Economist W. Carl Biven has written an interesting case study of economic policy making in the presidency, specifically the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Readers will be rewarded for their effort ....