Presidential Policymaking: An End-Of-Century Assessment

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The framework is laid out in Norman C. Thomas's foreword to the book and in Steven A. Shull's and James P. Pfiffner's contributions to Part I on presidential policy making. Part II, on public opinion and the media, interest groups, political parties, and elections, features chapters by Jeffrey E. Cohen and Ken Collier, Joseph A. Pika, Sidney M. Milkus, Lyn Ragsdale and Jerrold Rusk. In Part III, on intragovernmental relations, George C. Edwards III writes on Congress, Shirley A. Warshaw on staff, Richard W. Waterman on the bureaucracy, and Jeffrey A. Segal and Robert Howard on relations with the court. Part IV covers policy areas, with chapters by Paul J. Quirk and Bruce Nesmith on domestic policy, Lance T. LeLoup on budget policy, James E. Anderson on economic policy, and Louis Fisher on foreign and defense policy. In the concluding section of the book, Mary E. Stuckey discusses the issue of accountability and Bert A. Rockman and Colin Campbell write on policy leadership. With its broad coverage and contributions by leading presidency scholars, this book will be an excellent choice for upper-division political science courses on American politics