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| Preface | |
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| Presidential Paradoxes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| How We Evaluate Presidents | |
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| What the Framers Expected | |
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| What Was Expected in the Nineteenth Century? | |
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| Public Expectations Toward Presidents in Recent Times | |
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| Qualities Americans Look For in Presidents | |
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| Leadership the Public Wants | |
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| How Americans Judge Incumbent Presidents | |
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| Why Disapproval Ratings Rise | |
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| What Can a President Do? | |
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| How the Public Judges Presidents | |
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| How Experts Judge Presidents | |
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| Can We Predict Presidential Effectiveness? | |
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| What Is Presidential Greatness? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| How We Elect Presidents | |
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| Who Becomes President? | |
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| Why Voters Vote the Way They Do | |
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| The Invisible Primary | |
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| Presidential Primaries | |
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| Caucuses | |
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| National Conventions | |
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| Incumbency: Advantage or Disadvantage? | |
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| Incumbency and the Obama Presidency: Lame Duck, Sitting Duck, or Dead Duck? | |
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| General Elections: What Matters? | |
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| The Electoral College Debate | |
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| How the Electoral College Works Today | |
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| The Case for Retaining the Electoral College | |
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| The Case Against the Electoral College | |
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| The Case for the Direct Election of Presidents | |
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| From Election to Governing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| Presidential Power and Leadership | |
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| The Moods and Cycles of American Politics | |
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| The Vagaries of Presidential Power | |
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| Unresolved Questions | |
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| Persuasion and Power | |
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| Power-Maximizing Strategies | |
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| Presidential Leadership | |
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| The Building Blocks of Presidential Leadership | |
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| Vision | |
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| Skill | |
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| Political Timing | |
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| The "Conditions" of Power | |
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| Are We Too Presidency-Centric? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| The Presidential Job Description in a System of Shared Powers | |
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| The Presidency as Defined and Debated in 1787 | |
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| The Presidency as Redefined by Washington and His Successors | |
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| The Presidency as Redefined by FDR and the Modern Presidents | |
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| The Job of the Modern President | |
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| The Foreign Affairs Presidency | |
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| The Economic Presidency | |
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| The Domestic Presidency | |
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| The Multidimensional Presidency | |
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| Crisis Management | |
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| Symbolic, Morale-Building, and Shamanistic Leadership | |
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| Vision, Priority Setting, and Program Design | |
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| Recruitment Leadership | |
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| Legislative and Political Coalition Building | |
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| Policy Implementation and Evaluation | |
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| Oversight and Early-Warning Systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| Presidents and Congress | |
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| Separate Institutions/Shared Powers | |
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| The President's Constitutional Place | |
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| Historical Evolution | |
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| The Politics of Shared Power | |
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| The President in the Legislative Arena | |
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| Parties and Presidents: An Awkward Alliance | |
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| The "No Party" Presidency | |
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| Presidents and Use of Party Appeal in Congress | |
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| The Presidential Veto | |
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| Presidents and Congress in Foreign Affairs | |
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| Bush, the Congress, and Iraq | |
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| The "Imperial Presidency" Argument | |
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| Presidential War-Making Powers Before 1974 | |
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| The Continuing Debate Over War Powers | |
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| Confirmation Politics | |
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| Fusing What the Framers Separated | |
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| The Continuing Struggle | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| Presidents as Chief Executives: Challenges and Resources | |
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| Presidents and the Cabinet | |
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| Selecting Cabinet Advisers | |
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| The Job of a Cabinet Member | |
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| The West Wing Wants Loyalty along with Competence | |
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| The Role of the Cabinet in Policymaking | |
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| A Cabinet of Unequals | |
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| The Inner Cabinet | |
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| A National Security Cabinet | |
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| Attorneys General | |
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| Treasury Secretary | |
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| The Outer Cabinet | |
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| Outer-Cabinet Isolation | |
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| The Rise of the Administrative Presidency | |
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| The Executive Office of the President, Continued | |
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| The President's Spouse | |
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| The White House Staff | |
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| White House Chief of Staff | |
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| National Security Adviser | |
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| The Chief White House Political Counselor | |
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| White House Press Secretary | |
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| Advocacy Conflicts | |
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| Dealing with the Bureaucracy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| The American Vice Presidency | |
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| Traditional Problems | |
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| President of the Senate | |
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| Vice Presidents as "Assistant Presidents" | |
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| Psychological Problems or the "Throttlebottom Complex" | |
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| The Mondale Experience | |
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| The George H. W. Bush Experience | |
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| The Gore Experience | |
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| The Dick Cheney Vice Presidency | |
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| The Biden Vice Presidency | |
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| Selection | |
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| Succession | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| Presidents and the Court | |
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| Presidential Nominations to the Court | |
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| Confirmation Battles | |
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| Wayward Justices | |
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| The Temptation to Move Beyond The Law | |
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| The Presidents Emergency Power | |
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| Presidential Action in Times of Emergency | |
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| Court Decisions and Presidential Power | |
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| Presidential Losses Before The Supreme Court | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| The Future of the American Presidency | |
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| Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | |
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| Holding Presidents to Account | |
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| The Presidency and Democratic Theory | |
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| "Votes of No Confidence?" | |
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| What About a "Presidents Question Hour in Congress"? | |
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| A Third Party to the Rescue? | |
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| Should We Repeal the Twenty-Second (Two-Term Limit) Amendment? | |
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| Should Presidents Be Granted an Item Veto? | |
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| Limiting the Presidents War Powers | |
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| The Ultimate Check: Impeachment and Removal | |
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| Campaign Finance Reform-Again | |
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| Accountability in an Age of Terrorism | |
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| The Necessity for Politics and Democratic Accountability | |
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| For Discussion | |
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| Debate Questions | |
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| Internet Links | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Presidential Election Results, 1789-2012 | |
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| Index | |