Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
SECTION I – STUDIES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
President Jimmy Carter as a Reluctant Decision–Maker
Matthew H. Wahlert
“Soft Power:” A New (?) Realism in the Age of Obama
Anthony B. Newkirk
Succeeding in Presidential Succession: Context for the Continuity of Government Commission Report
Thomas Tobin
George W. Bush and Political Control of the Bureaucracy
David M. Hedge
National Study Commission Politics and Law: The President’s Aircraft Board of 1925
Harold C. Relyea
Stuck in the Basement: Organizing and Reorganizing for Homeland Security in the Post- 9/11 White House
David B Cohen and Terrence M. O’Sullivan
Search for “Manpower and Brainpower” Sources: The Origins of Immigration Policy in Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
David Miron
Making Changes in the Cabinet: Political Factors and Presidential Choices
James D. King and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
The Clinton Administration and the United Nations: From “Assertive Multilateralism” to “Burden Shifting” and Rediscovery
Stephen F. Burgess
Wartime Deliberation: The Perils of Presidential Rhetoric before War
Justin Rex
Exploring the Adoption and Use of New Media in the Obama Presidency: Is White House 2.0 Really Just White House 1.5?
Alan Steinberg
Reassessing the ‘Accidental President:’ Why Gerald Ford Mattered
Andrew Moran
Presidential Moral Rhetoric and the Public’s Policy Mood
Christopher Olds
Book Review
“The Politics of the President’s Wife” by Maryanne Borrelli
Reviewed by Ashley Chiera and Robert P. Watson
SECTION II – CHANGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? COMPARING THE PRESIDENCIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND BARACK OBAMA
Foreword to Section II
Meena Bose
Introduction to Section II
Gary C. Jacobson
SECTION IIA – COMPARING THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND BARACK OBAMA
Comparing the Constitutional Presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama: War Powers, Signing Statements, Vetoes
Robert J. Spitzer
Dividers, Not Uniters: How Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama Failed to Unite a Divided Nation
Richard Himelfarb
Overcoming a Polarized Congress: The Economic Politics of Bush and Obama
John D. Graham and Veronica Vargas Stidvent
SECTION IIB – CHANGES IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD FROM GEORGE W. BUSH TO BARACK OBAMA
Understanding the Obama Doctrine
Stanley A. Renshon
George W. Bush and Barack Obama: Foreign Policy Decision Making
John P. Burke
Evaluating Afghanistan and Iraq in the George W. Bush and Obama Presidencies: Change We Can Believe In?
Carolyn Eisenberg
Bush, Obama, Polarization and National Security: Some Concluding Thoughts
Dov S. Zakheim
Index
