Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Section I – Studies of the American Presidency
The Coming of Presidential Czars and their Accountability to Congress
Harold C. Relyea
Seasonal Clemency Revisited: An Empirical Analysis
P.S. Ruckman, Jr.
It’s Personal: Nixon, Liberia and the Development of U.S. African Policy
Thomas D. Matijasic
Contested Stewardship: Inter-Branch Conflict over Unilateral Presidential Directives for Public Lands
Graham Dodds
Commemorating Freedom’s Flight: The Space Shuttle as Partisan Vehicle in Presidential Eulogies
George F. McHendry, Jr. and Karrin Vasby Anderson
Talking the Nation into War Using Religious Rhetoric: A Study of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and George W. Bush
Barbara Warner, Brinck Kerr, and Andrew Dowdle
Partisanship as a Source of Presidential Rankings
Joseph E. Uscinski and Arthur Simon
The Effects of Partisanship and Ideology on Expert Raters’ Evaluations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43
Tim H. Blessing, Di You, and Anne Skleder
COMMENTARY
Reflections on the Findings of Uscinski and Simon, and Blessing, Skleder, and You on Rater Bias and Presidential Rankings
Tim H. Blessing
RESEARCH NOTES
FDR’s Forgotten Man: Metamorphosis to a Volatile Political Future
S. L. Harrison
The Influence of Familial, Childhood, and Peer Networks on Presidential Political Personality: Bill Clinton, Hope, Hot Spring and Racial Attitudes
Karen Sebold and Andrew Dowdle
REVIEW ESSAYS
Review of “Washington: A Life” By Ron Chernow
Michael W. Popejoy
Review of “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President” By Candice Millard
Michael W. Popejoy
Section II – US Presidential Leadership at the UN: 1945 to Present
Foreword to Section II
Meena Bose
Introduction to Section II – US Presidential Leadership at the United Nations: Evaluating the Past and Looking Ahead to the 21st Century Governance
Stephen Schlesinger
Classifying the Changing Role of the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Presidential Policy Making
Meena Bose
The Impact of Dues Withholding on the U.S.-U.N. Relationship
Courtney B. Smith
Rhetorical Constructions of Global Community: Presidents and the UN
Andrew D. Barnes and Mary E. Stuckey
The American President and the United Nations Security Council: Why Bigger Might Be Better
Paul Fritz
Presidential Leadership and UN Activities to End Violence against Women
Colleen J. Shogan
Why Did Busy Bypass the UN in 2003? Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and Presidential Leadership
Alexander Thompson
Concluding Observations and Comments
Jay M. Parker
Index