Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy Making - Softcover

"The breadth of the book from its discussion of the origins of the presidency, through its examination of the president's relations with the media, Congress, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy to an appendix which provides a summary of the arguments for and against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton is quite remarkable...my students report what they find most commendable are the authors' efforts to substantiate and illustrate their discussion with graphs, diagrams and tables." "I would describe Edwards and Wayne as clearly the best undergraduate text on the market for a course on the presidency. No other text I have read is as well organized, accessible written, and informed in its discussion." "I have found the Edwards and Wayne, Presidential Leadership text to be the best primary text...it is organized thematically in a way that makes intuitive sense..." "As we all know, these are two very good scholars and they've done a good job with this text. The strengths of the book are threefold: it is comprehensive; it provides a great amount of detail, and explicitly addresses the president's role in policy making." "I have used PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP as the basic text for at least the past 10 years. It is one of the few textbooks I use in any of my undergraduate courses. It is one the few that has ever worked in the sense that students read it without my having to threaten them with tests...I believe they use it because it is very well written, comprehensive in that it most often has the answers they are looking for, and doesn't have any overt, in-your-face bias."

From routine operations to the workings of a White House in crisis, this comprehensive, best-selling text examines all facets of the presidency in rich detail. George C. Edwards and Stephen J. Wayne use an engaging combination of analytical prose and timely, fascinating examples to examine the presidency from two theoretical standpoints--the President as "facilitator," and the President as "director of change." Their theoretical (versus chronological) approach, combined with the currency and relevance of the material covered in the text, have made PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING the most comprehensive and best-selling text available today for your presidential studies course.