Managing the President's Program Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation

"This is an impressive piece of work--extremely well written, clear and exhaustive, almost to a fault. Reflecting immense effort and scholarship, it offers presidency scholars new data, new insights, and interesting, often surprising findings.Managing the President's Programwill soon take its place as the standard reference for work dealing with presidential-bureaucratic policymaking and its consequences."--Daniel Ponder, University of Colorado "Andrew Rudalevige has gained access to an exceedingly important and long awaited data set and will be the first one to publish results. He makes a very good case for the importance of centralization and ties this to the growing literature of 'new institutionalism,' an important emerging approach in quantitative studies of the presidency. His book will get considerable and deserved attention."--Steven Shull, University of New OrleansRudalevige, Andrew is the author of 'Managing the President's Program Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation', published 2002 under ISBN 9780691095011 and ISBN 0691095019.