George C. Edwards III and Desmond S. King: Introduction
Part I: Exercising Power
2: Louis Fisher: The Scope of Inherent Powers,
3: Richard Pious, Barnard College: Torture of Detainees and
Presidential Prerogative Power
4: William Howell and Douglas Kriner, Harvard University: Bending
so as Not to Break: What the Bush Presidency Reveals about the
Politics of Unilateral Action,
Part II: Decision making
5: Thomas Langston: "The Decider's" Path to War in Iraq and the
Importance of Personality
6: John Burke: From Success to Failure? Iraq and the Organization
of George W. Bush's Decision Making
7: James Pfiffner: Intelligence and Decision Making Before the War
with Iraq
Part III: Governing by Campaigning
8: Gary C. Jacobson: The Public, the President, and the War in
Iraq
9: Larry Jacobs: The Promotional Presidency and the New
Institutional Toryism: Public Mobilization, Legislative Dominance,
and Squandered Opportunities
10: Scott Blinder: Going Public, Going to Baghdad: Presidential
Agenda-Setting and the Electoral Connection in Congress
11: Martha Kumar: Managing the News: The Bush Communications
Operation
Part IV: Building Congressional Coalitions
12: Charles O. Jones: The U. S. Congress and Chief Executive George
W. Bush,
13: Fiona Ross: Policy Histories and Partisan Leadership in
Presidential Studies: The Case of Social Security
George C. Edwards III is Distinguished Professor of Political
Science at Texas A&M University. He also holds the Jordan Chair
in Presidential Studies in the Bush School, and has served as the
Olin Professor of American Government at Oxford, the John Adams
Fellow at the University of London, and held senior visiting
appointments at Peking University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was the founder and
from
1991-2001 the director of The Center for Presidential Studies. One
of the country's leading scholars of the presidency, he has
authored dozens of articles and has written or edited 21 books on
American politics
and public policy making. He is also editor of Presidential Studies
Quarterly and consulting editor of the Oxford Handbook of American
Politics series. Among his latest books are On Deaf Ears: The
Limits of the Bully Pulpit , Why the Electoral College Is Bad for
America, and Governing by Campaigning.
Desmond King is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government
and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford and a
specialist in American political development and comparative
welfare policy. He is Fellow of the British Academy. His numerous
books include In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in
the USA and Britain (Oxford UP 1999), Making Americans:
Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard
UP 2000), and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the
American Nation (Oxford University Press 2005).
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