This is the first book to survey the intellectual history of
presidential scholarship from the Founding to the late 20th
century. Reviewing the work of over sixty thinkers, including
Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard
Neustadt, James McGregor Burns, and Theodore Lowi, the authors
identify six central questions, the answers to which can help form
a theory of presidential power:
Does presidential power derive from the prerogatives of office
or from incumbency? Does presidential influence depend upon force
of personality, rhetorical leadership, or partisanship? Does
presidential leadership depend upon historical context or is
regime-building manifested through political, institutional, and
constitutional developments? Does presidential leadership vary
between domestic and foreign affairs? Does the president actively
or passively engage the legislative process and promote a policy
agenda? Does the organization of the executive branch service
presidential leadership?
Arguing that three paradigms have dominated the history of
presidential scholarship -- Hamiltonianism, Jeffersonianism, and
Progressivism -- the authors conclude that today's understanding of
the presidency is characterized by a "new realism and old
idealism." This book will appeal to students and scholars as well
as to general readers with an interest in the American
presidency.
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