Agenda 2008 The American Presidency

VOLUME 29, NUMBER 4 - DECEMBER 1999

Articles

Hard Times for Presidential Leadership? (And How Would We Know?) - Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman

A Time for Reckoning: Jimmy Carter and the Cult of Kinsfolk - Douglas Brinkley

Presidential Campaign Quality: What the Variance Implies - Bruce Buchanan

Serving Competing Principals: The Budget Estimates of OMB and CBO in an Era of Divided Government - Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell

Constructing the Electorate during Presidential Campaigns - Roderick P. Hart and Mary C. Johnson

Unilateral Action and Presidential Power: A Theory - Terry M. Moe and William G. Howell

Does Organization Matter? A Critical-Case Analysis from Recent Presidential Nomination Politics - Barbara Trish

Features

The Polls: The Dynamics of Presidential Favorability, 1991-1998 - Jeffrey E. Cohen

The Contemporary Presidency: Presidential Lies - James P. Pfiffner

The Law: Executive Privilege: Definition and Standards of Application - Mark J. Rozell

Source Material: Presidential Recordings as Presidential Data: Assessing LBJ's Presidential Persuasive Attempts - Terry Sullivan, Jennifer Hora, Like Keele, Todd McNoldy, and Gregory Pettis

Review Essays

Substance, Style, and Presidential Control of Foreign Policy: Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance by Abraham Ben-Zvi and Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace by Caroline Pruden - Ryan J. Barilleaux

Winning Peace by Threatening Nuclear War: The Foreign Policy of Eisenhower and Dulles: Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War by Campell Craig and John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy by Richard H. Immerman - Meena Bose

Book Reviews

Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery by Robert Busby - Bruce Miroff

The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America by Steven G. Rabe - W. John Green

The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership by John W. Sloan - Raymond Tatalovich

Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965 by David F. Schmitz - James M. Scott

Forthcoming Articles

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