Presidential Leadership

Politics and Policy Making

George C. Edwards III, Kenneth R. Mayer, Stephen J. Wayne

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 13
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216330479
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This classic text on the American presidency analyzes the institution and the presidents who hold the office through the key lens of leadership. Edwards, Mayer, and Wayne explain the leadership dilemma presidents face and their institutional, political, and personal capacities to meet it. Two models of presidential leadership help us understand the institution: one in which a strong president dominates the political environment as a director of change, and another in which the president performs a more limited role as facilitator of change. Each model provides an insightful perspectives to better understand leadership in the modern presidency and to evaluate the performance of individual presidents.
With no simple formula for presidential success, and no partisan perspective driving the analysis, the authors help us understand that presidents and citizens alike must understand the nature of presidential leadership in a pluralistic system in which separate institutions share powers.
This fully revised thirteenth edition is fully updated through the Biden administration, with recent policy developments, the 2022 midterm elections, changes to the media environment, and the latest data.

Table of contents

• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Tables and Figures
• Preface
• About the Authors
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Powers of the Presidency
• 3. The Nomination Process
• 4. The Presidential Election
• 5. The President and the Public
• 6. Leading the Public
• 7. The President and the Media
• 8. The Structure of the Presidency
• 9. Presidential Decision Making
• 10. The President and the Executive
• 11. The President and Congress
• 12. The President and the Judiciary
• 13. Domestic and Economic Policy Making
• 14. Foreign and Defense Policy
• Appendix A. Methods for Studying the Presidency
• Appendix B. Nonelectoral Succession, Removal, and Tenure
• Appendix C. Provisions of the Constitution of the United States Relating to the Presidency
• Appendix D. 2020 Presidential Election Results by State
• Appendix E. 2020 Electoral College Map
• Appendix F. Presidents of the United States
• Notes