Presidential Studies Quarterly

The Honorable Stephen Horn Chairman, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations B-373 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Horn, As President of the American Political...

William Connolly (1993) once wrote that the basic concepts of political philosophy can be described as "essentially contested." He noted that a contested concept emerges when the concept is appraisive and internally complex and when its rules of application...

The peer review process is at the heart of scholarly publication. Its success depends on the intellectual contributions of scholars who generously devote their time to reading and evaluating the work of others. The editor and features editors thank...

The connection between presidential policy making and public opinion remains a subject of considerable dispute. Current debate centers on two conflicting accounts (for classic studies of public opinion and policy making, see Miller and Stokes 1963;...

According to the Brookings Institution, it has taken the Senate longer to confirm subcabinet nominees with each successive administration since President Kennedy's (Loomis 2001). Political scientists have spent little time analyzing why this is the...

This article is a preliminary attempt to sort out two questions central to the smooth workings of our tripartite system of government: first, do government lawyers have a "duty to defend" acts of Congress? Second, if it turns out that the White House...

There are two competing camps concerning the rhetorical legacy of Ronald Reagan. The dominant interpretation in the media and also among academic scholars is that Reagan was a skillful presenter of other people's speeches, a master at using often maudlin...