VOLUME 36, NUMBER 4 - DECEMBER 2006
Articles
Historical Trends in Questioning Presidents, 1953-2000 - Steven E. Clayman, Marc N. Elliott, John Heritage, Laurie L. McDonald
Polls, Elite Opinion, and the President: How Information and Issue Saliency Affect Approval - Michael R. Wolf, David B. Holian
Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: Faith, Foreign Policy, and an Evangelical Presidential Style - D. Jason Berggren, Nicol C. Rae
Featuring the President as Free Trader: Television News Coverage of U.S. Trade Politics - David M. Rankin
Research Notes
Scheduling the Party Conventions - Bruce E. Altschuler
Avoiding Advice and Consent: Recess Appointments and Presidential Power - Pamela C. Corley
Conceptualizing and Measuring White House Staff Influence on Presidential Rhetoric - Justin S. Vaugh, Jose D. Villalobos
Features
The Contemporary Presidency: "Going Local" to Reform Social Security - Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Jeffrey S. Peake
Elections: Reliability Trumps Competence: Personal Attributes in the 2004 Presidential Election - Martin P. Wattenberg
The Law: The President "Shall Nominate": Exclusive or Shared Constitutional Power? - Mitchel A. Sollenberger
The Polls: Polarized Opinion in the States: Partisan Differences in Approval Ratings of Governors, Senators, and George W. Bush - Gary C. Jacobson
Book Reviews
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism by Louis Fisher - Darren A. Wheeler
Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency by William J. Daugherty - Alan Warburton
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding by Darren Staloff - Stephen F. Knott
Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery by Thomas E. Schneider - Derek A. Webb
Louis Johnson and the Arming of America, the Roosevelt and Truman Years by Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll - Barbara Bennett Peterson
Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Beck Young - T. Alissa Warters
Nancy Reagan: On the White House Stage by James G. Benze - Anthony J. Eksterowicz
Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America by William H. Chafe - Michael A. Genovese
Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us by Roderick P. Hart, Sharon E. Jarvis, William P. Jennings, and Deborah Smith-Howell - Mira Sotirovic
