GOV 381L/PA 388K The American Presidency Unique # s 39130/62049

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1 GOV 381L/PA 388K The American Presidency Unique # s 39130/62049 Professor Bruce Buchanan Spring, 2011 Thursdays 3:30-6:30 BAT Office Hours: Tuesday 11-2 BAT Contact: bruceb@austin.utexas.edu; ( ) Course Content and Aims The course is cross-listed in the Government Department and the LBJ School, which reflects its theory-practice orientation. Course topics and readings offer an overview of the interdisciplinary field of presidency studies. The three broad questions that integrate the disparate topics covered are How does the presidency work? What is presidential leadership and what makes it effective? What is the state of scholarly research on these topics? The course has three aims: To provide a coherent introduction to the major literature on the presidency, to identify and address enduringly important research and practical questions about the institution and its central figure, and to sharpen student problem clarification, writing, deliberation and presentation skills. Required Books/Readings The following titles have been ordered through the Co-op: Morris, Irwin L The American Presidency: An Analytical Approach. New York: Cambridge Nelson, M The Presidency and the Political System. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 9th ed. Kenski, Kate, Bruce W. Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson The Obama Victory: How Media, Money and Message Shaped the 2008 Election. New York: Oxford.. Greenstein, F.2009 The Presidential Difference, 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Jones, Charles O The Presidency in A Separated System, 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings. Ippolito, Dennis S Why Budgets Matter. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Neustadt, R.E Presidential Power. New York: Free Press, 4th ed Additional required readings in Readings Packet (designated RP on syllabus) and on this course s Blackboard site (designated BB on syllabus). The RP is available at Speedway Copying in Dobie Mall. You are also expected to be up-to-date on major presidential news. 1

2 Student Responsibilities 1. Six 'reaction' papers. (30%) 3-5 pages, (assigned questions are starred * on outline) 2. Two brief presentations (with handouts) on outside readings (20%) 3. Final paper. (15%) Topic depends on student objectives. 4. Final paper presentation (15%) 5. Verbal participation (20%) in seminar discussions. Topics, Dates, Paper Assignments I. Introduction A. Requirements; The Functions of the Presidency; Presidency Research (1/20) B. Presidential Leadership: Research and Practice (1/27) * (What is presidential leadership? presidency research? How do/should they relate?) II. History, Presidential Accountability and the Constitution A. History: Theories and Cases (2/3) B. The Presidential Accountability System (PAS) and the Constitution (2/10) *(How well does the PAS support the Constitution?) III. The Operational Presidency A. Managing the White House (2/17) B. Domestic Policy Leadership (2/24) C. Presidential Influence in Congress (3/3) *(identify and assess the tools of policy leadership) D. The Budget and Economic Policy (3/10) E. Foreign Policy/National Security (3/24) *(Appraise President Obama s performance to date in economic and foreign policy) IV. Classic Theoretical Perspectives A. Presidential Power (3/31) B. Presidential Character (4/7) *(compare Neustadt/Barber/Lord visions of presidential leadership) V. The Presidency and the People A. Presidential Selection (4/14) B. Media and Communications (4/21) C. Public Opinion and Performance Evaluation (4/28) *(Appraise the core interactions between presidents and citizens). VI. Final Paper Presentations (5/5) Weekly Assignments and Supplementary Readings The starred (*) items are assigned weekly readings. Items listed under background are 2

3 suggestions for further exploration of the topics. PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE What is Presidential Practice? *Neustadt, pp. ix-xxiv *Edwards, G.C. (2009) The Strategic President. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp (RP1). * Bessette, Joseph M. and Jeffrey K. Tulis On the Constitution, Politics, and the Presidency. In Bessette and Tulis, eds. The Constitutional Presidency. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp (RP2). * Ragsdale, L. Studying the Presidency: Why Presidents Need Political Scientists. Nelson, pp *Waterman, R.W. and B.A. Rockman (2008) What is Presidential Leadership? in Rockman and Waterman, eds. Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power. New York: Oxford University Press, pp (RP3). *Rockman, B.A. and Waterman, R.W. (2008) Two Normative Models of Presidential Leadership in Rockman and Waterman, eds. Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power. New York: Oxford University Press, pp (RP4). What is Presidency Research? *Morris text, pp *Moe, Terry The Revolution in Presidential Studies Presidential Studies Quarterly *Jacobs, Lawrence.2010.Building Reliable Theories of the Presidency Presidential Studies Quarterly Rockman, Burt Does the Revolution in Presidential Studies Mean "Off With the President's Head"? Presidential Studies Quarterly Skowronek, Stephen Mission Accomplished Presidential Studies Quarterly Wood, B Dan Pontificating About Moe's Pontifications Presidential Studies Quarterly 3

4 Nye, Joseph S The Powers to Lead. New York: Oxford University Press Symposium on Presidency Research. December Presidential Studies Quarterly Lord, C. 2004) The Modern Prince. New Haven: Yale, pp Exhortation to preserve democracy from the barbarians; pp xi-xvii Book objectives; Possibilities, necessities, goals of leadership Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince. New Haven, CT: Yale Burns, James McGregor Leadership. New York: Harper and Row Bailey, F.G Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership. Ithaca, NY: Cornell 2. HISTORY: THEORIES AND CASES *Rossiter, C. 1987[1956] The American Presidency. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp (RP5). *Landy and Milkis, Presidency in the Eye of the Storm in Nelson, pp *Greenstein, FDR-Barack Obama. *Skowronek, Presidential Leadership in Political Time, pp (RP6). *Skowronek S. (1986) Notes on the Presidency in the Political Order, in K. Orren and S. Skowronek eds. Studies in American Political Development, vol.1,pp (RP7) *Morris Text, pp Greenstein, Fred I Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Skowronek, S Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Gerring, John What is a Case Study and What is it Good for? American Political Science Review 98: Neustadt, R. and E.R. May Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers. New York: Free Press. 3. THE PRESIDENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AND THE CONSTITUTION *Buchanan, Bruce Checks, Balances and Beyond: The Presidential Accountability System, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (BB1 or *Pious, Richard The American Presidency. New York: Basic Books, pp (RP8). *Tulis, The Two Constitutional Presidencies, in Nelson, pp *Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr The Ambivalence of Executive Power. in J.M. Bessette and J. 4

5 Tulis, eds. The Presidency in the Constitutional Order. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, pp (RP9). *Kleinerman, Benjamin Lincoln's Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism. Perspectives on Politics: 3: (BB2) *Morris text, pp *Yalof, Presidency and the Judiciary, in Nelson, pp Garry Wills Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. New York: Penguin Yoo, J Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush. New York: Kaplan. Matheson, Jr., S.M Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kleinerman, B. A The Discretionary President. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Pfiffner, James P Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution. Washington, DC: Brookings. Wittes, Benjamin Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror. New York: Penguin Corwin, E.S The President: Office and Powers New York: New York 4. MODELS OF PRESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT *Morris text, pp *Jones, pp *Burke, Institutional Presidency in Nelson, pp *Buchanan, Bruce (1990) "Constrained Diversity: The Organizational Demands of the Presidency" Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20: (RP 10) *Quirk, Presidential Competence, in Nelson, pp *Baker, Peter. December 12, Inside the Situation Room: How a War Plan Evolved. New York Times,p.1.(BB3) or y%204,%202010&st=cse Woodward, Bob Obama s Wars. New York: Simon and Schuster. Johnson, R.T Managing the White House. New York: Harper and Row George, Alexander Decision-Making in Foreign Policy: The Effective Use of Information and Advice. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Burke, John P. and F.I. Greenstein How Presidents Test Reality. New York: Sage. Hess, S Organizing the Presidency. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings. 5

6 Kernell, S. and S. Popkin eds Chief of Staff: Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency. University of California Press. Dickinson, Matthew J Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power, and the Growth of the Presidential Branch. New York: Cambridge. Walcott, Charles E. and Karen M. Hult Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Hart, John The Presidential Branch: From Washington to Clinton, 2d ed. Chatham, NJ: Chatham 5. DOMESTIC POLICY LEADERSHIP *Rottas, Andrew Executive Policymaking in a Hard Case- A Case Study of Immigration Policy in the Transition to the Obama Administration. Seminar paper (BB). *Tichenor, Presidency and Interest Groups: Allies, Adversaries and Policy Leadership, in Nelson, pp *Lewis and Moe, Presidency and Bureaucracy: Levers of Control, in Nelson, *Barcott, Bruce. April 4, Changing The Rules: How the Bush Administration Transformed Clean air policy. New York Times Magazine, p. 39. (RP11). *Howell, W G and Kriner, D Power without Persuasion: Identifying Executive Influence, in Rockman and Waterman, Presidential Leadership, pp (RP12) *Rudalevige, Presidency and Unilateral Power, in Nelson, pp Jacobs, Lawrence R. and Theda Skocpol Health Care Reform and American Politics. New York: Oxford Genovese, Michael A. and William W. Lammers The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. Warshaw, Shirley Anne The Domestic Presidency. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Cohen, Jeffrey E Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies that Presidents Choose. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Johnson, Hayes and David S. Broder The System. Boston: Little, Brown. Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. and Alan S. Murray Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform. New York: Vintage. Light, P Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform. New York: Random House. Light, P The President's Agenda. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins. Lynn, L. and D. Whitman The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform. Temple Kessel, J. H the Domestic Presidency. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury 6. PRESIDENTIAL INFLUENCE IN CONGRESS *Morris text, pp *Jones, pp *Dickinson, The President and Congress, in Nelson, pp

7 *Cameron, Charles M Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp (RP13). McCarty, Nolan, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Mann, Thomas E. and Norman J. Ornstein The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back On Track. New York: Oxford.Fiorina, Morris Divided Government. New York: Macmillan. Arnold, Douglas R The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale. Peterson, Mark A Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill From Eisenhower to Reagan. Cambridge: Harvard. Bond, Jon R. and Richard Fleisher The President in the Legislative Arena. Chicago: University of Chicago. Sundquist, J The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Brookings. Wayne, Stephen The Legislative Presidency. New York: Harper and Row 7. THE BUDGET AND ECONOMIC POLICY *Morris text, pp *Ippolito, Dennis S Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics. University Park: Penn State University Press, pp *Weatherford, Stephen Managing the Economy for Whom? Comparing the Economic Policy Leadership of GW Bush with his Post-war Predecessors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. (BB4). *Blinder, Alan S. and Mark Zandi. July 27, How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End. Obama House on a Rock speech (BB5). Posner, Richard How I Became a Keynesian. New Republic Online (BB5) Schick, Allen The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.. Cohen, Jeffrey E Politics and Economic Policy in the United States. 2d ed. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Sloan, John W The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Stein, H Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Clinton, 3rd Rev. Ed. Waldorf, MD: AEI Press. Porter, R.B Presidential Decision Making: The Economic Policy Board Cambridge: Cambridge 7

8 8. FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY *Morris text pp *Polsky, The Presidency at War In Nelson, pp *Buchanan, B Presidential Accountability for Wars of Choice Obama West Point Speech (BB6) Obama Nobel Prize Speech (BB7). Obama Cairo Speech (BB8). Wills, G Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. NY: Penguin Press. Yoo, J Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush. New York: Kaplan. Haas, R.N War of Necessity, War of Choice. New York: Simon and Schuster. Howell, W.G. and J. Pevehouse While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Herring, George C From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since New York: Oxford Savage, C Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency. NY: Little, Brown. Kinzer, Stephen Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt. Rudalevige, A The New Imperial Presidency. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press. Deering, C.J Foreign Affairs and War. In P.Quirk and S.Binder, The Legislative Branch, NY: Oxford, pp Yoo, John The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Fisher, L Presidential War Power, 2d.ed.rev. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Schlesinger, Jr., A.M War and the American Presidency. New York: Norton. Schlesinger, Jr. A.M The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Janis, I Victims of Groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Allison, G.T Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston: Little, Brown. 9. PRESIDENTIAL POWER *Morris text, pp

9 *Neustadt, Dickinson, Matthew We All Want a Revolution: Neustadt, New Institutionalism, and the Future of Presidency Research Presidential Studies Quarterly Edwards, G.C. (2009) The Strategic President. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Neustadt, Richard Presidential Power and the Research Agenda. Presidential Studies Quarterly 32: Jones, Charles O Professional Reputation and the Neustadt Formulation. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 31: PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER *Barber, J. D The Presidential Character, 4th ed. pp ; (RP14). * Review "Emotional Intelligence" discussion in intro and conclusion and for each president in Greenstein *Buchanan, Bruce The Presidential Experience. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, pp (RP15). * Buchanan, Bruce "Presidency-Relevant Character," in The Citizen's Presidency. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, (RP16) *Nelson, The Psychological Presidency, in Nelson, pp George, Alexander and Juliette L. George, eds Presidential Personality and Performance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Renshon, Stanley A The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates. New York: NYU Press. Goleman, Daniel Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books. Greenstein, Fred I Can Personality and Politics Be Studied Systematically? Political Psychology 13: Tulis, Jeffrey On Presidential Character. In The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, ed. Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State George, A "Assessing Presidential Character," World Politics, 26: Reedy, G The Twilight of the Presidency. New York: World. Greenstein, F Personality and Politics. Chicago: Markham. Renshon, Stanley A High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition. New York: New York Brodie, F Nixon: The Shaping of Character. New York: Norton. Kearns, D Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. New York: Harper androw. George, A. and J. George Woodrow Wilson and Colonial House. New York: Dover. 9

10 *Morris text, pp * Kenski, Hardy, and Jamieson, pp PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION Pious, The Presidency and the Nominating Process in Nelson, pp Edwards, The Faulty Premises of the Electoral College in Nelson, pp Jamieson, K.H Electing the President 2008: The Insiders View. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Shaw, Daron R The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Conley, Patricia H Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Troy, Gil See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate. New York: Free Press. Buchanan, Bruce Electing A President: The Markle Commission Research on Campaign '88. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Ceasar, J.W Presidential Selection: Theory and Development. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Kelley, Stanley, Jr Political Campaigning: Problems in Creating an Informed Electorate. Washington, D.C.: Brookings. 12. MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS *Jacobs, The Presidency and the Press, in Nelson, pp *Cohen, Jeffrey and David Nice The Mass Media and the Presidency. In The Presidency New York: McGraw Hill, pp (RP17) *Review relevant portions of Kenski, et. al. Feldstein, Mark Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington s Scandal Culture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farnsworth, Stephen J. and S. Robert Lichter The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Sparrow, Bartholomew H Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins 10

11 Cook, Timothy E. 1998, Governing With the News: The News Media as a Political Institution. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Cappella Joseph N. and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good. New York: Oxford. Patterson, Thomas E Out of Order. New York: Knopf. Brody, Richard A Assessing the President: The Media, Elite Opinion, and Public Support. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 2-26; Iyengar, Shanto Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago: University of Chicago. Iyengar, Shanto and Donald R. Kinder News That Matters: Television and American 13. PUBLIC OPINION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION *Morris text, pp *Jones, pp *Miroff, Presidential Leadership as Spectacle, in Nelson, pp *Lord, Leadership and Politics, pp *Buchanan, B Appraising Presidential Performance: A Test of the Values and Targets Hypothesis. *Buchanan, B How Americans Judge Presidents: A Typology. Working Paper, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. (BB9 and ssrn). Hetherington, Marc J. and Jonathan D.Weiler Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. New York: Cambridge Wood, B. Dan The Myth of Presidential Representation. New York: Cambridge Canes-Wrone, Brandice Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy and the Public. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Kernell, Samuel Going Public, 4th Ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press Towle, Michael J Out of Touch: The Presidency and Public Opinion. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Edwards, G. C On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit. New Haven, CT: Yale Patterson, Thomas E The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty. New York: Knopf. Jacobs, Lawrence R. and Robert Y. Shapiro Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Page, Benjamin I. and Robert Y. Shapiro The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Kinder, D.R. and S.T. Fiske "Presidents in the Public Mind." in M.G. Hermann (ed). 11

12 Political Psychology. Jossey-Bass, pp Edwards, G.C The Public Presidency. New York: St. Martin's Fiorina, M.P Retrospective Voting in American national Elections. New Haven, CT: Yale Mueller, J.E War, Presidents and Public Opinion. New York: Wiley. 12