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Presidents in Political Time: Recent Research on the American Presidency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

David McKay
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Government and Opposition , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 487 - 496
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1996

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References

1 The most influential of the revisionist works is Jones, Charles O., The Trusteeship Presidency, Baton Rouge, Louisiana University Press, 1988.Google Scholar

2 For a popular account of the Clinton presidency, see Woodward, Bob, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994.Google Scholar For an academic critique, see Rockman, Bert A., ‘Leadership Style and the Clinton Presidency,’ in Campbell, and Rockman, (eds), The Clinton Presidency, pp. 325–362,Google ScholarPubMed and sources cited.

3 The book was, for example, the subject of a special panel at the 1995 American Political Science Convention and in 1995 Polity devoted a lengthy forum to the book, ‘Polity Forum: The Politics Presidents Make’, Volume 27, Spring 1995.

4 Neustadt, Richard, Presidential Power, New York, Wiley, 1960.Google Scholar

5 Skowronek, Presidential Leadership in Political Time, p. 19.

6 For a typical example of his approach, see Rose, Richard, The Post‐Modern President: George Bush Meets the World, Chatham, NJ, Chatham House, 1991.Google Scholar

7 This is the main argument of Theodore Lowi, J. in The Personal President: Power Invested Promise Unfulfilled, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1985.Google Scholar

8 Greenstein, Fred I., The Hidden Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader, New York, Basic Books, 1982.Google Scholar

9 Dumbrell, The Carter Presidency, Ch. 2 and sources cited.

10 Charles O. Jones, The Trusteeship President.

11 For an evaluation of Carter’s legislative performance see Mayhew, David R., Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991;Google Scholar also Dumbrell, The Carter Presidency, pp. 43–44.

12 Friedman, Regulation in the Reagan‐Bush Era, Chs. 8 and 9. See also, McKay, David, Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964–1987, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989,Google Scholar Ch. 7.

13 Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make, p. 429.