SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues
Leadership and Legacy
Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.
The Obama Presidency
Lively and engaging essays covering President Obama’s domestic and foreign policy, governing style, and character.
JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party
A comprehensive account of JFK’s and LBJ’s leadership of the Democratic Party in the 1960s.
In the Public Domain
Explores how recent presidents have managed communications with the American public.
In the Name of Terrorism
Traces the shifts in presidential discourse on terrorism since World War II.
The First Presidential Communications Agency
The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.
George W. Bush
Essays on the first two years of the Bush presidency.
Popular Justice
Explores the interaction between the presidency and the U. S. Supreme Court.
Groupthink or Deadlock
Argues that too much advice can lead to policy deadlock depending on leadership style.
Ross for Boss
Presents an empirical study of Perot's 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and the implications for third-party politics in the United States.
The Environmental Presidency
Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns.
Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations
Provides a multivariate analysis of presidential-congressional interaction.
Presidents and Foreign Policy
Examines ten important and controversial U. S. presidential foreign policy decisions in the post-World War II period, including one major controversy for each president from Truman to Clinton.
The American Presidency Under Siege
Attributes the failure of the modern presidency to the development of a political system that inherently impedes creative leadership, and offers prescriptive measures to restore the governing capacity of the president.
American Presidential Elections
Milton Cummings, Everett Ladd, David Mayhew, Gerald Pomper, and Harvey Schantz analyze presidential elections over the sweep of American history and examine their impact on political parties, public policy, and society.
Powersharing
This study of presidential administrations from Nixon through Clinton discusses how and why the White House has become the dominant player in the domestic policy process, relegating the departments to implementation, rather than design, of key initiatives.
Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992, The
This book is a voter's-eye view of the 1992 presidential election campaign. Robert D. Loevy traveled from state to state throughout the 1992 presidential selection process—from the pre-primary period ...
Controversial Issues in Presidential Selection
This new edition provides the latest on controversies surrounding the presidential selection process. The text is two-thirds new material, with new articles by John F. Bibby, Robert D. Brown, Emmett H. ...
Beyond Persuasion
Beyond Persuasion is the first systematic, multi-administration study of presidential power and influence. Moving beyond Richard Neustadt's Presidential Power, this book offers a model of presidential ...
The Constitution and the American Presidency
In this unusual and provocative volume, historians examine the presidencies of Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, F. D. R., and Truman, while political scientists assess the contemporary ...
Supremely Political
Drawing upon revealing and generally unpublished presidential papers associated with Lyndon Johnson's ill-fated nomination of Abe Fortas, and Richard Nixon's failed designations of Clement F. Haynsworth ...
The President as Prisoner
This book focuses, not on the Constitutional balance of power between Congress and the White House—a focus that restricts analysis to questions of means—but on the more unsettling and often unexamined ...