Agenda 2008 The American Presidency

VOLUME 38, NUMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 2008

Symposium on the New Presidency

The New Vice Presidency: Institutions and Politics - George C. Edwards III, Lawrence R. Jacobs

The Rising Power of the Modern Vice Presidency - Joel K. Goldstein

The Making of the Modern Vice Presidency: A Personal Reflection - Richard Moe

Institutional Change and the Dynamics of Vice Presidential Selection - Mark Hiller, Douglas Kriner

Articles

Vice Presidents and Other Heirs Apparent: The Historical Experience of Experience - Charles O. Jones

Theodore Roosevelt's Diplomacy and the Quest for Great Power Equilibrium in Asia - Greg Russell

Did Reagan Make Gorbachev Possible? - James Graham Wilson

Features

The Contemporary Presidency: And We Will Know Their Greatness by the Trail of Controversy: Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Their Increasingly Contested Successors - Gunnar Grendstad

The Law: Executive Power and Prosecution: Lessons from the Libby Trial and the U.S. Attorney Firings - Katy J. Harriger

Polls and Elections: Southern Discomfort? Regional Differences in Voter Decision Making in the 2000 Presidential Election - D. Sunshine Hillygus, Todd Shields

If Everyone Had Voted, Would Bubba and Dubya Have Won? - John Sides, Eric Schickler, Jack Citrin

Book Review Essay

Public Confidence and Executive Power: The Symbiosis – Brian Steele

Book Reviews

Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 by Donald A. Ritchie - Dean J. Kotlowski

The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004 by Daron Shaw - Terri Susan Fine

The George W. Bush Legacy edited by Colin Campbell, Bert A. Rockman, and Andrew Rudalevige - Caroline Heldman

Center for the Study of the Presidency Center for the Study of the Presidency