The Presidency and the Political System

Revised
ISBN: 978-1-4522-4043-5
Verlag: CQ PR

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Editor Michael Nelson, a well-known, well-respected presidency scholar, offers contextual head-notes introducing each essay. Essays cover approaches to studying the presidency, elements of presidential power, presidential selection, presidents and politics, and presidents and government.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Contributors
PART I. APPROACHES TO THE PRESIDENCY
1. The Two Constitutional Presidencies - Jeffrey K. Tulis
2. Studying the Presidency: Why Presidents Need Political Scientists - Lyn Ragsdale
PART II. ELEMENTS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
3. The Development of Presidential Power: Conservative Insurgency and Constitutional Construction - Stephen Skowronek
4. The Presidency in History: Leading from the Eye of the Storm - Marc Landy, Sidney M. Milkis
5. Presidential Competence - Paul J. Quirk
6. The Psychological Presidency - Michael Nelson
PART III. PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION
7. The Presidency and the Nominating Process: Aspirants, Parties, and Selections - Lara M. Brown
8. The Faulty Premises of the Electoral College - George C. Edwards III
PART IV. PRESIDENTS AND POLITICS
9. The Presidential Spectacle - Bruce Miroff
10. The Presidency and the Media: Two Faces of Democracy - Elvin T. Lim
11. The Presidency and Interest Groups: Allies, Adversaries, and Policy Leadership - Daniel J. Tichenor
12. The Presidency and Political Parties - Sidney Milkis
PART V. PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENT
13. The Institutional Presidency - John P. Burke
14. The Presidency and the Bureaucracy: The Levers of Presidential Control - David E. Lewis, Terry M. Moe
15. The President and Congress - Matthew J. Dickinson
16. The Presidency and the Judiciary - David A. Yalof
17. The Presidency and Unilateral Power: A Taxonomy - Andrew Rudalevige
Part VI. PRESIDENTS AND PUBLIC POLICY
18. The Three Presidencies: Power and Policy - Roger B. Porter
19. The Presidency at War: The Window of Agency in Wartime Presidential Leadership - Andrew J. Polsky
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nelson, Michael
Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, his most recent books include Trump’s First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition. His 2014 book, Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award.