The Presidency and the Political System

Michael Nelson is professor of political science at Rhodes College

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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