The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency

1. Introduction; APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE PRESIDENCY; 2. Quantitative Approaches to the Study of the Presidency; 3. Game Theory and the Study of the American Presidency; 4. Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Presidency; PRECURSORS TO GOVERNANCE; 5. Presidential Transitions; 6. Presidents and the Political Agenda; THE PUBLIC PRESIDENCY; 7. Public Expectations of the President; 8. Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion; 9. Leading the Public; 10. Understanding the Rhetorical Presidency; 11. Public Evaluations of Presidents; 12. The Presidency and the Mass Media; THE LEGISLATIVE PRESIDENCY; 13. The President and Congressional Parties in an Era of Polarization; 14. Legislative Skills; 15. Presidential Approval as a Source of Influence in Congress; 16. The Consequences of Divided Government; 17. Connecting Interest Groups to the Presidency; UNILATERAL ACTION; 18. Going Alone: The Presidential Power of Unilateral Action; 19. Prerogative Power and Presidential Politics; 20. Assessing the Unilateral Presidency; DECISION-MAKING; 21. Organizational Structure and Presidential Decision-Making; 22. Influences on Presidential Decision-Making; 23. The Psychology of Presidential Decision-Making; IMPLEMENTING POLICY; 24. Presidential Agendas, Administrative Strategies, and the Bureaucracy; 25. The Presidency-Bureaucracy Nexus: Examining Competence and Responsiveness; JUDICIAL RELATIONS; 26. Nominating Federal Judges and Justices; 27. Judicial Checks on the President; INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; 28. Presidents, Domestic Politics, and the International Arena; 29. Presidents and International Cooperation; 30. War's Contributions to Presidential Power; REFLECTIONS; 31. The Paradigm of Development in Presidential History; 32. Whose Presidency Is This Anyhow?; 33. Political Scientists and the Public Law Tradition; 34. The Study of Leadership

George C. Edwards III is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University and holds the Chair in Presidential Studies. A leading scholar of the presidency, he has written or edited 23 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. Professor Edwards has served as president of the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association, which has named its annual dissertation prize in his honor and awarded him its Career Service Award.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a grandly ambitious undertaking. Success depends on coverage, scholarship, and editorial command. Measured by these standards, the Handbooks will be immensely valuable to the discipline. The right topics are analyzed by knowledgeable scholars and managed by experienced editors. A five-star project that will influence teaching and research for decades. Professor Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency is an outstanding intellectual enterprise. No student of the American chief executive can afford to be without this landmark work. Fred I. Greenstein, Professor of Politics Emeritus, Princeton University one of the most important contributions to the study of the presidency in the last decade...The contributors to this volume are the acknowledged experts on the topics about which they write. Every essay is as close to comprehensive as is possible...The handbook is critical for any serious presidential scholar and is an essential addition to any college or university library collection. Summing Up: Essential. S. Q. Kelly, California State University Channel Islands, CHOICE