Articles
Reinventing Leeway: The President and Agenda Certification - Charles O. Jones
Strengthening Presidential Decision-Making Capacity - Karen M. Hult
Building Coalitions - George C. Edwards III
The Presidency, the Bureaucracy, and Reinvention: A Gentle Plea for Chaos - David Lowery
Domestic Policy Making - Paul C. Light
Reinventing What for Whom? President and Congress in the Making of Foreign Policy - Bert A. Rockman
Features
The Law: The Clinton Theory of the War Power - David Gray Adler
The Polls: The Components of Presidential Favorability - Jeffrey E. Cohen
The Qualities of Effective Presidents: An Overview from FDR to Bill Clinton - Fred I. Greenstein
Measuring Congressional Support for the President Evaluating NOMINATE Scores - William Hixon and Aaron E. Wicks
Review Essay
Review: Managing the Media in Historical PerspectiveReview: Managing the Media in Historical Perspective - Martha Joynt Kumar
(Managing the Press: Origins of the Media Presidency, 1897-1933 by Stephen Ponder; Who Speaks for the President? The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton by W. Dale Nelson)
Book Reviews
Seeing Spots: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Television Advertisements, 1952-1996 by William L. Benoit - Glenn W. Richardson Jr.
Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy by Meena Bose - Phillip G. Henderson
The Watergate Crisis by Michael A. Genovese - Charles E. Walcott
The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security Council, and the Cold War by Sara L. Sale - Jean A. Garrison
The Reconstruction Presidents by Brooks D. Simpson - Robert Tracy McKenzie
The Presidency of Richard Nixon by Melvin Small - Michael A. Genovese
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus - James N. Giglio
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government by Karl-Friedrich Walling - David Nichols
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