Description: Beginning with the institutional presidency that emerged during the Roosevelt administration, this new edition includes a revised chapter on the Bush administration and a new chapter on Bill Clinton.
Brief description: John P. Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 and author of Bureaucratic Responsibility, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: A useful synthesis of the knowledge that presidency-watchers have gleaned about the formal operations of the White House . . . The book is ideally suited for use as a supplementary text in presidency and bureaucracy courses, especially those that emphasize policy rather than politics or prerogative.
--Richard M. Pious, Political Science Quarterly