Presidents are more constrained in exercising unilateral actions than before. This book asks: when does unilateral action correspond to presidential power?

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing le

This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from t

In this eye-opening book, Andrew Rudalevige examines more than five hundred executive orders from the 1930s to today--as well as more than two hundred others ne

How institutions shape the American presidency This incisive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the institutional sources of presidential power and executive gov