Chapter 4: Presidential Power

Annotated Internet References

The American Presidency Project Web site (www.presidency.ucsb.edu), maintained and researched by political scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, provides a wealth of data, links, statistics, and multimedia clips regarding the presidency. Included are presidential speeches, public papers, and statistics on specific policy areas. Thousands of documents are included such as State of the Union addresses, speeches, commencement addresses, and intergovernmental organization addresses.

 

The Web site for the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (http://spa.american.edu/ccps) is hosted by American University and provides access to conferences, speeches, and articles regarding the presidency. Of particular interest to the center is the relationship of the executive and legislative branches along with presidential and congressional campaigning. The center publishes a number of books and series regarding these issues as well as the peer-reviewed journal Congress and the Presidency (the journal’s index is available online at http://spa.american.edu/ccps/pages.php?ID=20).

 

The Center for the Study of the Presidency (www.thepresidency.org) provides useful links to White House documents as well as research opportunities and tips regarding studying the presidency. Along with sponsoring internship and fellowship opportunities, the center publishes Presidential Studies Quarterly, which studies all aspects of the presidential institution (each issue’s table of contents is available on the site). The Center provides fellowship and conference opportunities for students and researchers interested in studying the presidency.

 

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs (http://millercenter.virginia.edu) provides historical biographies and recordings of the presidents. The center has a particular focus on the study of the media and the presidency. It also produces the Miller Center Papers, which describe presidential public policy making. The Center has more than 4,000 hours of multimedia relating to the presidency.

 

POTUS, on the Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org/div/potus), is a site hosted by the University of Michigan that provides full biographic data, timelines, and major actions of all the presidents.

 

The National Archives hosts a Web site on the Presidential Libraries (www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/index.html) providing links to a dozen presidential libraries. Most libraries’ sites contain speeches, memoirs, and research links to specific policies of the respective presidents.

 

Presidents of the United States of America (www.presidentsusa.net), a site hosted by CB Presidential Research Services, provides a comprehensive resource, with monthly updates, on a wide range of information regarding presidential speeches, salaries, quotes, military history, and major policies. This site also includes specific vetoes, appointments, and election data on each president.

 

The Web site for the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) provides links to presidential speeches, executive agencies and committees, and issue information released by the president and advisers. Of particular interest to foreign-policy researchers are links to the Office of the Vice President, Homeland Security, War on Terror, Iraq, and National Security.

Additional Links of Interest

American Journal of Political Science (www.ajps.org/)

American Political Science Review (www.apsa.com/pubs/)

Congress and the Presidency: A Journal of Capital Studies (http://spa.american.edu/ccps/pages.php?ID=20)

Journal of Politics (http://journalofpolitics.org/)

Political Research Quarterly (http://prq.sagepub.com/)

Political Science Quarterly (www.psqonline.org/)

Presidential Studies Quarterly (www.thepresidency.org/psq/index.htm)

White House Studies (www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~whs/)

Suggested Readings Cited in Chapter 4

Adler, David Gray, and Larry N. George, eds. 1996. The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.

 

Brinkley, Douglas. 1997. “Democratic Enlargement: The Clinton Doctrine.” Foreign Policy 106 (Spring): 110–127.

 

Cohen, Jeffrey E. 1995. “Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda.” American Journal of Political Science 39 (February): 87–107.

 

Daalder, Ivo H., and James M. Lindsay, eds. 2003. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 

Dumbrell, John. 2002. “Was There a Clinton Doctrine? President Clinton’s Foreign Policy Reconsidered.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 13 (June): 43–56.

 

Fisher, Louis. 1995. Presidential War Powers. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.

 

Garrison, Jean. 1999. Games Advisers Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

 

Gregg, Gary L., II, and Mark J. Rozell, eds. 2004. Considering the Bush Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Haney, Patrick. 1997. Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

Henkin, Louis. 1996. Foreign Affairs and the Constitution. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Jervis, Robert. 2003. “Understanding the Bush Doctrine.” Political Science Quarterly 118 (September): 365–388.

 

LeoGrande, William M. 2002. “Tug of War: How Real Is the Rivalry between Congress and the President over Foreign Policy?” Congress and the Presidency 29 (Autumn): 113–118.

 

Moore, James, and Wayne Slater. 2003. Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

 

Silverstein, Gordon. 1997. Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Woodward, Bob. 2006. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Suggested Readings Following the Themes of Chapter 4

Burke, John P. 1992. The Institutional Presidency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Bond, Jon R., and Richard Fleisher, eds. 2000. Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Crabb, Cevil V., Jr., and Pat M. Holt. 1992. Invitation to Struggle: Congress, the President, and Foreign Policy. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Edwards, George C., III, and Stephen J. Wayne. 2003. Presidential Leadership: Policy and Policy Making. 6th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Thompson Wadsworth.

 

Fisher, Louis. 1998. The Politics of Shared Power: Congress and the Executive. 4th ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

 

Fleisher, Richard, Jon R. Bond, Glen S. Krutz, and Stephen Hanna. 2000. “The Demise of the Two Presidencies.” American Politics Quarterly 28 (January): 3–25.

 

Gergen, David. 2000. Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. New York: Simon and Schuster.

 

Hamilton, Lee H. 2002. A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

 

Hersman, Rebecca K. C. 2000. Friends and Foes: How Congress and the President Really Make Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 

Hyland, William G. 1999. Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

 

Jones, Charles O. 1994. The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 

Kernell, Samuel. 1997. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Mann, James. 2004. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking.

 

Michaels, Judith E. 1997. The President’s Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Nelson, Michael, ed. 2006. The Presidency and the Political System. 8th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Patterson, Bradley. 2000. The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.

 

Peake, Jeffrey S. 2001. “Presidential Agenda Setting in Foreign Policy.” Political Research Quarterly 54 (March): 69–86.

 

Peterson, Paul E. 1994. “The President’s Dominance in Foreign Policy Making.” Political Science Quarterly 109 (Summer): 215–234.

 

Pfiffner, James P. 2005. The Modern Presidency. 4th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Thompson Wadsworth.

 

Pika, Joseph A., and John A. Maltese. 2004. The Politics of the Presidency. 6th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Ponder, Daniel. 2000. Good Advice: Information and Policymaking in the White House. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

 

Prados, John. 1991. Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. New York: William Morrow.

 

Preston, Thomas. 2001. The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Ragsdale, Lyn. 1998. Vital Statistics on the Presidency: From Washington to Clinton. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

 

Shull, Steven, ed. 1999. Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.

 

------, ed. 1991. The Two Presidencies: A Quarter-Century Assessment. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

 

Thurber, James A., ed. 2002. Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations. 2d ed. Lanham, Md.: Roman and Littlefield.

 

Zegart, Amy. 1999. Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.