In the most up-to-date core text on the presidency, Pika and Maltese once again deliver a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging analysis of the increasingly political nature of the office, while artfully balancing its historical foundations.

This revised seventh edition features a new chapter on the first 100 days of the Obama administration and discussion of:

• the precedent-setting campaign and election, 
• Obama’s transition to the White House, 
• new cabinet members and high-level advisers,
• the legislative agenda and executive–legislative relations, and 
• the outlook on foreign policy.

In the most up-to-date core text on the presidency, Pika and Maltese once again deliver a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging analysis of the increasingly political nature of the office, while artfully balancing its historical foundations.This revised seventh edition features a new chapter on the first 100 days of the Obama administration and discussion of:

• the precedent-setting campaign and election, 
• Obama’s transition to the White House, 
• new cabinet members and high-level advisers,
• the legislative agenda and executive–legislative relations, and 
• the outlook on foreign policy.

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PART I. THE PRESIDENT AND THE PUBLIC

1. The Changing Presidency
The Scope of Presidential Power
Expansion of the Presidency
Presidential Culture
Conclusion: The Changeable, Political Presidency

2. Election Politics
Evolution of the Selection Process
Defining the Pool of Eligibles
Competing for the Nomination
The National Convention
The General Election
Validation
Transitions to Governing

3. Public Politics
Public Attitudes toward the Presidency
Rallying Public Support
The President and the Media
Conclusion: The Permanent Campaign

4. Presidential Character and Performance
Determinants and Evaluations of Performance
What Manner of Person?
Psychological Characteristics of U.S. Presidents
Management Styles of Modern Presidents
Understanding Presidents: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
What to Expect From Obama
Conclusion: Seeking Presidential Success

PART II. THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNMENT

5. Legislative Politics
Development of the President’s Legislative Role
The Presidential-Congressional Relationship
The President’s Formal Legislative Powers
The President’s Informal Legislative Influence
Explaining Presidents’ Legislative Success

6. Executive Politics
The President as Executive
The President and the Executive Branch
The President and the Cabinet
The Vice President
Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy
Presidential Management of the Bureaucracy
Conclusion

7. Judicial Politics
Presidential Appointment of Federal Judges
Other Presidential Influences on the Federal Courts
Judicial Oversight of Presidential Action
Conclusion

PART III. THE PRESIDENT AND PUBLIC POLICY

8. The Politics of Domestic Policy
The Domestic Policy Process
The Domestic Policy Environment
The Domestic Policy Apparatus
Conclusion

9. The Politics of Economic Policy
Macroeconomic Policy
Microeconomic Policy
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The Politics of Macroeconomic Policymaking
The Economic Subpresidency
Presidents and Economic Policy Coordination
Congress’s Role in Macroeconomic Policy
Conclusion

10. The Politics of National Security Policy
Issues in National Security Policy: Search for a New Consensus
The Problem with National Security Policymaking
The President, Congress, and National Security
Organizing and Managing National Security
Conclusion

11. Barack Obama: Transition to Power and First 100 Days
The Transition
The Inauguration
The First 100 Days

“I have used The Politics of the Presidency through several editions because it does such a good job of putting the latest presidential developments--now including the dramatic ascent of Barack Obama--into historical and political context. My students always find it a readable and interesting complement to our work in the classroom. And because Pika and Maltese take such pains to ensure that the latest research informs each chapter, it helps keep me up-to-date as well.”

“Pika and Maltese’s Politics of the Presidency is a foundational rock for my course on the American presidency. What I can’t cover in lectures, they do in the text. I can’t ask for much more. I highly recommend it.”

“To the surprise of no one who knows the field, Pika and Maltese, among the most respected Presidency scholars in APSA, have once again produced a thoroughly researched and pedagogically accessible Presidency textbook. What more could a professor want? Highly recommended.”

“I have been using The Politics of the Presidency for a number of years. My students find it accessible and engaging, while I find it appropriately challenging and rigorous—a perfect combination. This text is organized to provide excellent structure for a seminar, with timely and topical issues as well as connections to important scholarship and current theoretical perspectives. I organize my course around it and use it as a point of departure for current themes and opportunities. Pika and Maltese clearly understand what is important in teaching a great college seminar.”

Joseph A. Pika is professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at SUNY at Buffalo. He is coauthor with Jason D. Mycoff of Conflict & Compromise: Presidential and Congressional Leadership, 2001-2006 and continues his interests in the vice presidency, relations with interest groups, legislative–executive relations, and education policy. He served for four years as president of the Delaware State Board of Education.

John Anthony Maltese is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees (1995), winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Award, and Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News (1992), winner of a Frank Luther Mott Award. He was recently named the Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Maltese also writes extensively about classical music and won a Grammy Award in 1996 from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.