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Managing the President''s Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation.

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 697 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Managing the President''s Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
by Andrew Rudalevige. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002. 296 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $18.95.

Presidential leadership is a broad term encompassing a number of roles, including head of state, chief executive, party leader, chief diplomat, and legislative leader. It is the role of legislative leader that Andrew Rudalevige examines in Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy. As he seeks to find what skills presidents need to employ to move their legislative proposals through Congress, Rudalevige finds that centralization of decision making within the White House often leads to failed legislative initiatives. Presidents, according to Rudalevige, should incorporate a broad range...

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