Table of Contents

George C. Edwards III and Desmond S. King: Introduction
Part I: Exercising Power
2: Louis Fisher: The Scope of Inherent Powers,
3: Richard Pious, Barnard College: Torture of Detainees and Presidential Prerogative Power
4: William Howell and Douglas Kriner, Harvard University: Bending so as Not to Break: What the Bush Presidency Reveals about the Politics of Unilateral Action,
Part II: Decision making
5: Thomas Langston: "The Decider's" Path to War in Iraq and the Importance of Personality
6: John Burke: From Success to Failure? Iraq and the Organization of George W. Bush's Decision Making
7: James Pfiffner: Intelligence and Decision Making Before the War with Iraq
Part III: Governing by Campaigning
8: Gary C. Jacobson: The Public, the President, and the War in Iraq
9: Larry Jacobs: The Promotional Presidency and the New Institutional Toryism: Public Mobilization, Legislative Dominance, and Squandered Opportunities
10: Scott Blinder: Going Public, Going to Baghdad: Presidential Agenda-Setting and the Electoral Connection in Congress
11: Martha Kumar: Managing the News: The Bush Communications Operation
Part IV: Building Congressional Coalitions
12: Charles O. Jones: The U. S. Congress and Chief Executive George W. Bush,
13: Fiona Ross: Policy Histories and Partisan Leadership in Presidential Studies: The Case of Social Security

About the Author

George C. Edwards III is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He also holds the Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies in the Bush School, and has served as the Olin Professor of American Government at Oxford, the John Adams Fellow at the University of London, and held senior visiting appointments at Peking University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was the founder and from
1991-2001 the director of The Center for Presidential Studies. One of the country's leading scholars of the presidency, he has authored dozens of articles and has written or edited 21 books on American politics
and public policy making. He is also editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly and consulting editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Politics series. Among his latest books are On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit , Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, and Governing by Campaigning.
Desmond King is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford and a specialist in American political development and comparative welfare policy. He is Fellow of the British Academy. His numerous books include In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain (Oxford UP 1999), Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard UP 2000), and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the
American Nation (Oxford University Press 2005).