Presidential Studies Quarterly

How do children view the presidency? This question drew a good deal of attention in the 1960s, as best represented by the work of Fred Greenstein. Since that time, little effort has been made to see what today's children think about the presidency....

Introduction: The Significance of the White House Chief of Staff The Clinton presidency began with great hope and expectation. Political observers marveled at the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign machine as the war room concept of campaigning changed...

In our recent exploration of the personality, stylistic, and substantive dimensions of Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's Saturday rooming radio broadcasts (Sigelman and Whissell 2002), we ignored Reagan's immediate successor and Clinton's immediate...

The Question of Approval This inaugural edition covers one troublesome data element: public approval. Does presidential public approval affect congressional support? The answer to this question constitutes a conundrum. To practitioners, the answer...

The Constitution generally requires Congress and the president to reach a consensus through the regular legislative process. However, President Bill Clinton will be remembered not for what he did with Congress but what he did without it. On a broad...

Edward S. Corwin wrote at midcentury, "Taken by and large, the history of the presidency has been a history of aggrandizement" (1957, 307). At least with respect to war powers, recent years only have bolstered Corwin's observation. The Constitution...