Scholarship
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Books
- Nerve Center: Lessons on Governing from the White House
Chiefs of Staff. 2004.
This book length manuscript
combines scholarly comment and the transcript of the Forum of Former
White House Chiefs of Staff, which convened all but three of the living
former White House Chiefs to discuss the management of the White House
and preparations for the presidential transition.
- Download a pdf
version of the introductory chapter.
- Download a pdf version
of the
final chapter assessing the 2001 transition.
- The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and
Operations.
2003. with Martha Kumar. Texas A& M
University Press
This edited volume presents the
collected work of the White House 2001 Project, its original essays on
White House operations, its organizational materials used by the
transition teams, and the materials used by the Bush White House in
developing their transition plans.
- Congress: Structure and Policy, with M. McCubbins.
Series on Political Economy of Institutions & Decisions. James Alt
and Douglas North, general editors. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
- Procedural Structure:
Success and Influence in Congress. New York: Praeger, 1984.
In Progress
- Making a
Difference: LBJ, Bargaining, and Presidential Leadership,
Princeton: Princeton University
Press, under contract for publication in 2005.
This book length project combines
formal models of bargaining, confidential administration headcounts,
internal memorandum, tape recordings, and a number of other archival
materials, to build an analysis of the President¹s ability to lead
through persuasion.
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Articles in Refereed Journals
- Presidential Persuasive Advantage, Compliance Gaining, and Sequencing. with Gregory Petrow.
Congress and the Presidency [forthcoming].
- "Meeting the Freight Train Head On
Planning for the Presidential Transition." With Martha Kumar,
George C. Edwards, III, and James Pfiffner. Presidential Studies
Quarterly, 30,4(December 2000):754-69. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "Confronting the Kennedy Tapes: The May-Zelikow Transcripts
and
the Stern Assessments," Presidential Studies Quarterly,
30,3(September 2000):594-7.
- "The White House Interview Program Objectives,
Resources,
and Releases." With Martha Kumar. Presidential Studies Quarterly,
30,2(June 2000):382-7.
- "Presidential
Recordings as Presidential Data - Evaluating
LBJ's
Recorded Conversations." with Jennifer Hora, Luke Keele, Todd McNoldy,
and Gregory Pettis. Presidential Studies Quarterly,
29,4(Autumn): 931-42
- "Impeachment
Practice
in the Era of Lethal Conflict." Congress and the Presidency,
25(Autumn 1998):117-28. Download
a copy of the copyrighted article in PDF.
- "New
Evidence
Undercutting
the Linkage of Prestige with Presidential Support and Influence." with
Kenneth Collier. Journal of Politics, 57(1995):197-209.
- "President-Centered
and
Presidency-Centered Explanations of Presidential Public Activity." with
Gregory L. Hager. American Journal of Political Science,
38(1994): 675-92. Download
a pdf version of the copyrighted article.
- "The Bank Account
Presidency:
A New Measure and Evidence on the Temporal Path of Presidential
Influence." American Journal of Political Science,
35(1991):686-723.
- "Wrong Questions,
Ø-Questions, Legitimate Questions,
Reasoned Answers: Affirming the Study of Temporal Paths." American
Journal of Political Science, 35(1991):730-37.
- "Bargaining with
the
President:
A Simple Game and New Evidence." American Political Science
Review, 84(1990):1167-96. Download a pdf version
of the copyrighted article.
- "Explaining Why Presidents
Count: Signaling and Information." Journal
of Politics, 52(1990):939-62.
- "Headcounts,
Expectations, and Presidential Coalitions in
Congress." American Journal of Political Science,
32(1987):567-89.
- "Presidential Leadership in Congress: Securing Commitments."
M.
McCubbins and T. Sullivan, eds. Congress: Structure and Policy.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987:286-308.
- "Constituency Influences on Legislative Policy Choice." with
M.
McCubbins. Quantity and Quality, 18(1984):299-319.
- "Policy and Constituency: Reelection Incentives and the
Choice of
Policy Intervention." with G. Cox and M. McCubbins. Social
Choice and Welfare, 1(1984):231-42.
- "Risk and Regret for the Expected Utility Maximizer." with N.
Frohlich and G. Miller. Political Methodology,
5(1978):109-21.
- "Voter's Paradox and Logrolling: An Initial Framework for
Committee Behavior on Appropriations and Ways and Means." Public
Choice, 25(1976):31-44.
In Progress
- I Will Walk Your District Barefoot: Presidential Exchanges
with
Members of Congress. [drafted]
This paper uses confidential
presidential recordings as data to evaluate various strategic appeals
used in bargaining. It simultaneously tests a number of common
bargaining theories in political science, economics, communications,
and psychology.
- Modeling Presidential Persuasion: Position, Incomplete
Information, and Dead Ducks. with Scott DeMarchi.
[Under review at Legislative
Studies Quarterly]
Download a pdf version
of
the paper.
This paper employs a
simple
game to suggest the importance of information and time on bargaining
strategies and responses. It develops an equilibrium description which
highlights the impact of tenure on bargaining stability, suggesting a
window of opportunity for hard bargaining near the end of a
presidential administration. Headcount data describing the bargaining
process supports the derived empirical expectations, suggesting the
model captures important aspects of decision-making.
- A Proper Assessment of Presidential Popularity and
Congressional
Influence. With Jennifer Hora, Lawrence Jacobs, and Robert Shapiro.
[drafting].
This paper applies new and unique
data to properly assess the perennial question of how presidential
popularity affects presidential influence in Congress. The new data
provide local level data on constituency opinion as well as data on
behind the scenes position-taking by members of Congress. In effect,
then, it serves as the first true test of this hypothesis since it was
originally offered in 1960.
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Other Published Articles
- "Already Buried and
Sinking Fast - Presidential Nominees and
Inquiry," PS ‹ Political Science and Politics, special
symposium, March 2002:31-4. Reprinted in The White House World.
Download a pdf version
of
this copyrighted article.
- "Repetitiveness,
Redundancy, and Reform Rationalizing
the
Inquiry of Presidential Nominees," in Paul Light and G. Calvin
MacKenzie, editors, The Presidential Appointments Process,
Washington: The Brookings Institution, forthcoming Summer 2001:196-230.
- "In Full View The
Inquiry of Presidential Nominees." Reports
from the White House 2001 Project, Nomination Forms Online
Program, Study number 15(April 2001) 43 pages. Also submitted for the
record at the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental
Affairs. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "Fabulous Formless
Darkness Presidential Nominees and
the
Morass of Inquiry," The Brookings Review, 12,2(Spring
2001):22-27.
- "Refining the White
House Personal Data Statement." Reports
from the White House 2001 Project, Nomination Forms Online
Program, Study number 14(March 2001) 14 pages. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "Changing the White House Personal Data Statement." Reports
from the White House 2001 Project, Nomination Forms Online
Program, Study number 9(December 2000) 16 pages. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "Analyzing
Questionnaires for Nominees." Reports from
the
White House 2001 Project, Nomination Forms Online Program,
Study number 8(December 2000) 14 pages. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "A Guide to Inquiry Executive Questionnaires." Reports
from the White House 2001 Project, Nomination Forms Online
Program, Study number 7(November 2000) 49 pages. Copies available at WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org.
- "Soon They Will Walk Among Us - a beginner's guide to
understanding formal theory." PRG Report, 21(Fall
1998):15-21.
- "In Selecting the Archivist,
Mr. President, Choose Political Astuteness over Pedigree," The
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 1995: Section II, page
1f.
- "On Becoming APt: Research Using Presidential Archives." Presidential
Research, (Fall, 1992):1,4ff.
- "Spreading APt: Research Using Presidential Archives." Presidential
Research, (Spring 1992):1, 4ff.
- "Domestic Legislative Coalitions and Impeachment." L.
Friedman
and W. Levantrosser, eds. Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of
Richard Nixon. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992:
- "A Matter of Fact: The "Two Presidencies" Thesis
Revitalized." S.
Shull, ed. The "Two Presidencies": A Quarter Century Assessment.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1991:143-157.
- "Developing APt: Archival Resources and Congressional
Research." Extensions,
Fall 1989:4-
6ff. Reprinted in LSG Newsletter, Washington: APSA
Legislative Studies Group 1990.
- "The Bargaining Approach to Presidential Leadership in
Congress." Presidential Research, 10(1988):12-22.
- "Majority Party Leadership and Partisan Vote-Gathering: the
House
Democratic Whip System." with Lawrence C. Dodd. F. MacKaman, ed., Understanding
Congressional Leadership: the State of the Art. Washington:
Congressional Quarterly Press, 1982.
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Electronic Publications (World Wide Web)
- REAGAN: A
Time for Choices (a joint project with CNN Interactive).
- The Camp David
Accords: Framework for Peace. A demonstration of PRESIDENT. 1995.
- LIA - Leadership Information
Archives, with Cheryl Friedman. 1994.
- PRESIDENT -
Presidential Libraries IDEA Network. http://ibiblio.org/lia/president.
1994-96.
- Presidential
Sites Commission - presidential information resources.
- CINet
-
Community IDEA Network. 1994.
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