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9781568024967

The Presidency and the Political System

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568024967

  • ISBN10:

    1568024967

  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Congressional Quarterly Books(Ssd)

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Author Biography

Michael Nelson is professor of political science at Rhodes College

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Contributors ix
PART I APPROACHES TO THE PRESIDENCY
Evaluating the Presidency
3(26)
Michael Nelson
Studying the Presidency: Why Presidents Need Political Scientists
29(35)
Lyn Ragsdale
The American Presidency in Comparative Perspective: Systems, Situations, and Leaders
64(29)
Bert A. Rockman
PART II ELEMENTS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
The Two Constitutional Presidencies
93(32)
Jeffrey K. Tulis
Presidential Leadership in Political Time
125(46)
Stephen Skowronek
Presidential Competence
171(28)
Paul J. Quirk
The Psychological Presidency
199(24)
Michael Nelson
Second-Term Presidencies: The Aging of Administrations
223(28)
Michael B. Grossman
Martha Joynt Kumar
Francis E. Rourke
PART III PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION
The Presidency and the Nominating Process
251(25)
Bruce Buchanan
The Presidency and the Election Campaign: Framing the Choice in 1996
276(25)
Thomas Weko
John H. Aldrich
PART IV PRESIDENTS AND POLITICS
The Presidency and the Public: Leadership as Spectacle
301(24)
Bruce Miroff
The President and the Press: Negotiating Newsworthiness at the White House
325(36)
Timothy E. Cook
Lyn Ragsdale
The President and the ``Interests'': Why the White House Cannot Govern
361(15)
Benjamin Ginsberg
Walter R. Mebane, Jr.
Martin Shefter
The Presidency and Political Parties
376(41)
Sidney M. Milkis
PART V PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENT
The Institutional Presidency
417(26)
John P. Burke
The Presidency and the Bureaucracy: The Presidential Advantage
443(32)
Terry M. Moe
The President and Congress
475(30)
Mark A. Peterson
The Presidency and the Judiciary
505(28)
John Anthony Maltese
The Vice Presidency: New Opportunities, Old Constraints
533(37)
Joseph A. Pika
Divided Government and Policy Making: Negotiating the Laws
570(25)
Paul J. Quirk
Bruce Nesmith
Index 595

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