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Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason �鶹����
9508 Shipwright Drive
Burke, VA 22015
email: pfiffner@gmu.edu

EDUCATION

B.A. �鶹���� of Wisconsin, Madison (1968), Political Science

M.A. �鶹���� of Wisconsin, Madison (1972), Political Science Ph.D. �鶹���� of Wisconsin, Madison (1975), Political Science

EXPERIENCE

2001-220 George Mason �鶹����, �鶹���� Professor of Public Policy Director of the Doctoral Program, 2010 – 2014

2013 Visiting Professor, Griffith �鶹����, Australia (June – August) 2007 S.T. Lee Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study, �鶹���� College London (January-July)

1987-2001 Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason �鶹���� 1997 Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institutions (January-August)

1984-87 Associate Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason �鶹����

1980-84 California State �鶹����, Fullerton, Associate Professor of Political Science

1980-81 U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Special Assistant, Office of the Director

1978-80 California State �鶹����, Fullerton, Assistant Professor of Political Science

1975-78 �鶹���� of California, Riverside, Assistant Professor of Political Science 

1974-75 Brookings Institution, Research Fellow

1971-74 �鶹���� of Wisconsin, Madison, Teaching Assistant 1970 U.S. Army, Vietnam/Cambodia, 25th Infantry Division Section Chief, Fire Direction Center, A Battery, 1/8 Artillery, 1969 Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Instructor in Artillery Gunnery

HONORS AND AWARDS

College of Arts and Sciences, Scholarly Award, George Mason �鶹����, 1999. National Academy of Public Administration, elected member.

Distinguished Faculty Award, George Mason �鶹����, 1990. Brookings Institution, Visiting Scholar (Summer 1983).

John Brown Mason Professorship, California State �鶹����, Fullerton (1983-84). National Association of Schools of Public Affairs & Admin. Faculty Fellowship (1981-82). Army Commendation Medal for Heroism, (with “V” device) Vietnam/Cambodia (1970).

Who’s Who in America, 2000; Who’s Who in the World, 2010.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Organizing the Presidency, Fourth edition, with Stephen Hess (Washington: Brookings, 2021).

Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, co-edited with Tracy Lightcap (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Understanding the Presidency, co-edited with Roger H. Davidson. Seventh Edition (New York: Pearson-Longman, 2013).

Torture as Public Policy, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010).

The Modern Presidency (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994) Sixth Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2010).

Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), paperback edition, 2009.

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives Co-edited with Mark Phythian (Manchester �鶹���� Press, co-published in the United States by Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2008).

The Character Factor: How We Judge America’s Presidents (College Station: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2004).

Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency General editor: David Abshire (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001)
I am listed as “Executive Editor” for The Center for the Study of the Presidency. I edited 75 brief (1000 words) case studies and wrote five cases. I also wrote the concluding chapter (cited below) to the volume.

The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act, co-edited with Douglas A. Brook (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins �鶹���� Press, 2000).

Governance and American Politics: Classic and Current Perspectives, edited (Harcourt, Brace, and Company; 1995).

The Presidency and the Persian Gulf War, co-edited with Marcia Whicker and Raymond Moore (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993).

The Managerial Presidency, edited (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991).
Second edition: (College Station, TX: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 1999).

The Presidency in Transition, co-edited with R. Gordon Hoxie (New York: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1989).

The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running
(Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988). Second Edition: (Lawrence, KS: �鶹���� Press of Kansas, 1996). Winner of the Presidency and Executive Politics section of the American Political Science Association “Legacy Award” for a book that has had a “continuing contribution to the intellectual development” of the field of presidency studies (2021).

The President and Economic Policy (editor) (Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986.

The President, the Budget, and Congress: Impoundment and the 1974 Budget Act (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979).

Editor: special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly (co-edited with Marcia Whicker): The Clinton Presidency in Crisis, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, (Fall 1998).

Editor: special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly: Presidential Decision Making, Vol. 35, No. 2 (June 2005).

Congressional Testimony

“Presidential use of White House ‘Czars’”
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, October 22, 2009.

“The Constitutional Role of the Pardon Power”
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties; March 27, 2019; testimony posted on SSRN.

Scholarly Journal Articles (total = 56)

[many of these articles are posted at pfiffner.gmu.edu]

“President Trump and the Shallow State: Disloyalty at the highest levels,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52., No. 3 (September 2022).

“Organizing the Biden Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol 51, No. 4 (Dec. 2021).��

“Donald Trump and the Norms of the Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, (March 2021).

“The Transition of the Presidency, 2020-2021,” Korean Journal of Policy Studies,” Special issue (2021), pp. 110-137.

“Organizing the Trump Presidency, Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 48, No. 1 (March 2018), pp. 153-167.

“The Unusual Presidency of Donald Trump,” Political Insight (September 2017) Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 9-11.

“Magna Carta and the Contemporary Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2016), pp. 140-157.

“The Constitutional Legacy of George W. Bush,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4 (December 2015), pp. 727-741.

“On Reading the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation,” Intelligence and National Security: Special Forum on the US Senate Select Committee Report on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, November 2, 2015), pp. 15-17.

“Dysfunctional Politics in the United States: Origins and Consequences,” Papers on Parliament, No. 60 (March 2014), pp. 17-37. Published by the Department of the Senate, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia. “The Paradox of President Reagan’s Leadership,” Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 43, No.1, (March 2013), pp. 81-100.

“Torture During Interrogation: Notes from the Field,” Public Integrity, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter 2012-2013), pp. 97-102 (book review essay).

“Strong Executive Branch Leadership Crucial for Policy Implementation,” (with co-authors)
The Public Manager (Winter 2012), pp. 37-40.

“Federalist No. 70: Is the President Too Powerful?” Public Administration Review Special Issue, (November/December 2011), pp. 112-118.

“Decision Making in the Obama White House,” Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 41, No.2, (June 2011), pp. 244-262.

“U.S. Blunders in Iraq: De-Baathification and Disbanding the Army,” Intelligence and National Security Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 76-85.

“Obamas Prasidentschaft: Wandel und Kontinuitat,” (“The Obama Presidency: Change and Continuity”) Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (January 2010), pp. 6-12.

“Decision Making in the Bush White House,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (June 2009), pp. 363-384.

“Presidential Signing Statements and Their Implications for Public Administration,” Public Administration Review Vol. 69, No. 2 (March/April 2009), pp. 249-255.��

“Executive Power: George W. Bush and the Constitution,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (March 2008), pp. 124-144.

“The Institutionalist: A Conversation with Hugh Heclo,” Public Administration Review Vol.. 67, No. 3 (May/June 2007), pp. 418-423. [conducted and edited interview with Heclo]

“Marching in Time: Alliance Politics, Synchrony, and the Case for War in Iraq, 2002-2003,” co-authored with Mark Phythian, Rod Tiffen, and Alan Doig. Australian Journal of International Affairs, March 2007.

“The First MBA President: George W. Bush as Public Administrator,” Public Administration Review, January/February 2007.

“U.S. Obligations for the Treatment of Prisoners,” Virginia Lawyer, Vol. 95, No. 4 (December 2006), pp. 44-49.

“Les decisions de guerre de George W. Bush: ‘’Afghanistan et l’Irak
Politique Americaine No. 5, (Ete-Automne, 2006), pp. 35-52.

“Torture and Public Policy,” Public Integrity Vol. 7, no. 4 (Fall 2005), pp. 313-330. Reprinted in Richard J. Stillman, ed. Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010), pp. 454-465.

“Presidential Decision Making: Rationality, Advisory Systems, and Personality,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 35, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 217-228.

“Did President Bush Mislead the Country in His Arguments for War with Iraq?,” Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 25-46.

“The Electoral College and the Framers’ Distrust of Democracy,” with Jason Hartke, White House Studies Vol. 3, No. 3 (2003), pp. 261-272.��

“President George W. Bush and His War Cabinet,” Foreign Policy Bulletin (Winter 2003), pp. 288-296.

“Elliot L. Richardson: Exemplar of Integrity and Public Service,” Public Integrity Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 251-269. Won award from the Ethics Section of the American Society for Public Administration for outstanding article published in 2003.

“Ranking the Presidents: Continuity and Volatility,” White House Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2003), pp. 23-34. Reprinted in Meena Bose and Mark Landis, eds. The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2004).

“Judging Presidential Character,” Public Integrity, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 2002-2003), pp. 7-24.

“George Washington’s Character and Slavery” White House Studies, Vol 1, No. 4, ( 2001), pp. 351-461. Reprinted in: Robert P. Watson, ed., Contemporary Presidential Studies:; A Reader (NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2003), pp. 3-12.

“The White House Office of Presidential Personnel,” (with Bradley Patterson) Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 415-438.
[A longer version of this article was prepared by the authors for the White House 2001 project, directed by Martha Kumar and financed by the Pew Charitable Trusts. It was one of a series of papers on the primary White House Offices prepared for the 2001 transition. The papers were read and used by the incoming Bush transition team.]
Reprinted in: The White House World edited by Martha Kumar and Terry Sullivan (College Station, TX: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press), pp. 165-192.

“Meeting the Freight Train Head on: Planning for the Transition to power,” (co-author)
Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 4 (December 2000), pp. 754-769. Reprinted in: The White House World edited by Martha Kumar and Terry Sullivan (College Station, TX: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press), pp. 5-24/

“Presidential Lies,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 903-917.

“Sexual Probity and Presidential Character,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. XXVIII, No. 4 (Fall 1998), pp. 881-887.

“The Public Service Ethic in the New Public Personnel Systems,” Public Personnel Management, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 541-555.

"The National Performance Review in Perspective," International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1997), pp. 41-70.

"The President's Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1993), pp. 77-102.
Reprinted in: The Managerial Presidency, 2nd ed., James P. Pfiffner editor (College Station, TX: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 1998), pp. 75-104.

"Establishing the Bush Presidency," Public Administration Review (January/February 1990), 64- 72.

"The 1988-89 Presidential Transition," Presidency Research, Vol. XI, No. 2 (Spring 1989), p.18- 30.

"The President's Legislative Agenda," The Annals Vol. 499 (September 1988), pp. 22-35. Reprinted in: Randall Ripley and Elliot Slotnick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 1993, pp. 353-362.

"Thirteen Year Paper Chase: The Nixon Archives," Presidency Research (Spring 1987), pp. 15- 20).

"Political Appointees and Career Executives: The Democracy-Bureaucracy Nexus in the Third Century," Public Administration Review (January/February 1987), pp. 57-65. Reprinted in: The American Constitution and the Administrative State edited by Richard Stillman (Lanham, MD: �鶹���� Press of America, 1989). Reprinted in: The Managerial Presidency edited by James P. Pfiffner (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole 1991). Reprinted in: Agenda for Excellence edited by Patricia Ingraham and Donald Kettl (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1992).

"White House Staff versus the Cabinet: Centripetal and Centrifugal Roles," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1986) pp.666-90. Reprinted in: Readings In American Government and Politics edited by Randall Ripley and Elliot Slotnick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), pp. 429-439; 2nd ed., 1993, pp. 322-331.

"Learning From Presidential Transfers," Presidency Research (Fall 1985), pp. 15-19).

"The Federal Budget: Policy, Process, and Politics," Congress and the Presidency (Autumn 1985), pp. 193-197).

"Political Public Administration," Public Administration Review (March/April 1985), pp. 352- 356).

"Budgetary Crisis and Congressional Spending," Policy Studies Journal (March 1983), pp. 539- 545).

"The Challenge of Federal Management in the 1980s," Public Administration Quarterly (Summer 1983), pp. 162-182).

"The Carter-Reagan Transition: Hitting the Ground Running," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1983), pp. 623-645.

"Presidential Personnel Policy," Presidency Research (Spring 1982), pp. 2-6.

"Management and Central Controls Reconsidered," The Bureaucrat (Winter 1981-82), pp. 13-16.

"Budgeting and the 'People's Reform'," Public Administration Review (March/April 1980), pp. 194-200.

Book Chapters (Total = 72)

[many of these chapters are posted at pfiffner.gmu.edu]

“How Donald Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election, in James Thurber, ed. Rivals For Power, 7th edition, (Roman and Littlefield, 2022).

“OMB, the Presidency, and the Federal Budget,” in Executive Policymaking edited by Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige (Brookings 2020), pp. 11-40.

“The Lies of Donald Trump: A Taxonomy” in The Trump Presidency and Executive Power, edited by Charles Lamb (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 17-40.

“President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq: Presidential Leadership and Thwarted Goals,” in James McCormick, ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, 6th ed. (Roman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. 361-380.

“Unilateral Presidential Authority: Uses and Abuses,” in Rivals for Power, edited by Jordan Tama and James Thurber (Roman and Littlefield, 2017), pp. 75-97; updated in 7th edition.

Staffing the President’s Team,” in Keifer, J. J. and Neaves, T. T. “Implementing Successful Strategies for Emergency Management and Homeland Security.” In Memos to National Leaders, edited by P. L. Posner, J. R. Lachance, and T. T. Neaves. Washington, DC: National Academy of Public Administration and the American Society for Public Administration (2016)., pp. 28-31.

“Managing the Federal Executive Branch,” with Mary Boardman, in Foundations of Public Administration, edited by Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Richard J. Stillman (Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh, 2017), pp. 262-278.

“Introduction,” in The George W. Bush Presidency, Volume I: The Constitution, Politics, and Policymaking, ed. Meena Bose (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2016), pp. xi-xvi.

“White House Rules: The Post-World War II Presidency,” in Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, edited by Maxmillian Angerholzer III, et al. (Praeger, Denver, CO, 2016), pp. 11-15.

“The First Hundred Days: Myth and Mystique,” in Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, edited by Maxmillian Angerholzer III, et al. (Praeger, Denver, CO, 2016), pp. 91-96.

“Presidents Bush, Obama and the Surveillance of Americans,” In The Quest for Leadership: Essays in Honor of Thomas E. Cronin. Michael Genovese, ed. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015), pp. 131-148.

“The Efficacy of Coercive Interrogation,” in Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, editors James P. Pfiffner and Tracy Lightcap, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 127-157.

“U.S. Torture Policy and Command Responsibility,” in Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, editors James P. Pfiffner and Tracy Lightcap, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 103-125.

“Organizing the 21st Century White House,” in James Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power, 5th ed. (Lanham, MD: Roman Littlefield, 2013), pp. 63-86.

“Bill Clinton and the Character Factor in Perspective,” in Rosanna Perotti, ed. The Clinton Presidency and the Constitutional System (Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2012), pp. 221-232. “Clinton, Congress, and the Presidency,” in Rosanna Perotti, ed.

The Clinton Presidency and the Constitutional System (Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2012), pp. 43-46.

“Organizing the Obama White House,” in James A. Thurber, ed., Obama in Office (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), pp. 75-85.

“President Bush as Chief Executive,” in Robert Maranto, et al., Judging Bush (Stanford, CA: Stanford �鶹���� Press, 2009), pp. 58-74. “Presidential Transitions,” in George C. Edwards and William G. Howell, eds.

The Oxford Handbook of The American Presidency (Oxford, UK: Oxford �鶹���� Press, 2009), pp. 85-107.

“Partisan Polarization, Politics, and the Presidency: Structural Sources of Conflict,” in James A. Thurber, ed. Rivals For Power: Presidential Congressional Relations (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2009), pp. 37-60 (revised for 4th edition).

“George W. Bush as Chief Executive,” in Andrew Wroe and Jon Herbert, Assessing the Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms? (Edinburgh �鶹���� Press, 2009), pp. 29-43.

“Introduction: Policy-Making and Intelligence on Iraq,” with Mark Phythian, In James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian, eds. Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives (UK: Manchester �鶹���� Press, 2008); U.S. edition: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2008, pp. 1-16.

“Decisionmaking, Intelligence, and the Iraq War,” in James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian, eds. Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives (UK: Manchester �鶹���� Press, 2008); U.S. edition: Texas A&M �鶹���� Press, 2008, pp. 213-232.

“The Ethics of Interrogation: Torture and Public Management,” in Derek S. Reveron and Judith Hicks Stiehm, eds., Inside Defense: Understanding the U.S. Military NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 161-172.

“Intelligence and Decision Making Before the War with Iraq,” in George C. Edwards and Desmond King, eds., The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush (Oxford, UK: Oxford �鶹���� Press, 2007), pp. 213-242.

“Presidential Leadership and Advice about Going to War,” in Terry L. Price and J. Thomas Wren, eds., The Values of Presidential Leadership (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 135-157.

“Partisan Polarization, Politics, and the Presidency: Structural Sources of Conflict,” in James A. Thurber, ed. Rivals For Power: Presidential Congressional Relations (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 33-58.

“Do Presidents Lie?”, in George C. Edwards, Readings in Presidential Politics (Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2006), pp. 159-181.

“The Decision to Go to War with Iraq,” in Richard J. Stillman, Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010), pp. 195-209 (also in 8th and 9th editions).

“National Security Policymaking and the Bush War Cabinet,” in Richard Conley, ed. Transforming the American Polity: The Presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terrorism (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004).

“George W. Bush: Policy, Politics, and Personality,” in George C. Edwards III and Philip John Davies, eds., New Challenges for the American Presidency (NY: Pearson/Longman, 2004), pp.161-181.

“Ranking the Presidents: Continuity and Volatility,” in Meena Bose and Mark Landis, eds., The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2004), pp. 27-42.

“Traditional Public Administration versus The New Public Management: Accountability versus Efficiency” Festschrift for Professor Klaus Konig of Speyer, Germany. In Institutionenwandel in Regierung und Verwaltung: Festschrift fur Klaus Konig, Arthur Benz, HHeinrich Siedentopf, and Karl-Peter Sommermann, eds. (Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot, 2004), pp. 443-454.

“Assessing the Bush Presidency,” in Gary L. Gregg and Mark J. Rozell, eds. Considering the Bush Presidency (NY: Oxford �鶹���� Press, 2004), pp. 1-20.

“George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton,” Chapter 10 in Organizing the Presidency by Stephen Hess (Washington: Brookings, 2002), pp. 146-164.

“The Transformation of the Bush Presidency,” in James P. Pfiffner and Roger Davidson, eds.
Understanding the Presidency, 3rd edition (NY: Longman, 2002), pp. 453-471.��

“Reevaluating the Electoral College” in James P. Pfiffner and Roger Davidson, eds. Understanding the Presidency, 3rd edition (NY: Longman, 2002), pp. 57-72.��

“Presidential Appointments: Recruiting Executive Branch Leaders” in Innocent Until Nominated: the Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Washington: Brookings, 2001), pp. 50-80. A 2500 word version of the chapter was published in The Brookings Review (Spring 2001), pp. 41-44.

“The President and Congress at the Turn of the Century: Structural Sources of Conflict,” in Rivals For Power, ed. By James A. Thurber (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 27-48.

“Presidents in Crisis: Watergate, Iran-Contra, and President Clinton’s Impeachment” in Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, ed David Abshire (Wesport, CT: Praeger, 2001), pp. 284-300.

“The Paradox of Governmental Power,” in Moorhead Kennedy, et. al, The Moral Authority of Government (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000), pp. 183-188.

“Character and the Modern Presidency: Multi-Dimensional or Seamless?” in Clyde Wilcox and Mark Rozell eds. The Clinton Scandal (Washington: Georgetown �鶹���� Press, 2000), pp. 225-255..

“Government Legitimacy and the Role of the Civil Service,” in James P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook, eds. The Future of Merit Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Press, 2000), pp. 15-38.

“Presidential Constraints and Transitions.” in Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Ed. Steven A. Shull. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp, 1999). pp. 19-37.

“President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the 104th Congress.” in On Parties: Essays Honoring Austin Ranney. Eds. Nelson W. Polsby and Raymond E. Wolfinger (Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 2000). pp. 135-168.

“President Clinton’s Impeachment and Senate Trial,” in Understanding the Presidency, 2nd ed. edited by James P. Pfiffner and Roger H. Davidson (NY: Longman, 2000).

“The American Tradition of Administrative Reform,” in The White House and the Blue House: Government Reform in the United States and Korea eds., Yong Hyo Cho and H. George Frederickson (Lanham, MD: �鶹���� Press of America, 1998).

“Ronald Reagan’s Contrasting Chiefs of Staff,” in Ronald Reagan’s America, edited by Eric J. Schmertz, et. al. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 493-502.

"President Clinton and the 103rd Congress: Winning Battles and Losing Wars," in Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, edited by James Thurber (Washington: CQ Press, 1996), pp. 170-190.

"Governance," in Governance V: Institutions and Issues, ed. Kenneth Thompson (New York: �鶹���� Press of America, 1994), pp. 113-134.

“Presidential Policy Making and the Gulf War,” in The Presidency and the Persian Gulf War, co- edited Marcia Whicker, James Pfiffner, and Raymond Moore (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993), pp. 3-24. Reprinted in: Understanding the Presidency, eds. James P. Pfiffner and Roger Davidson (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), pp. 405-415.

"The Bush Transition: Symbols and Substance," in Presidential Transitions: The Reagan to Bush Experience ed. Kenneth Thompson (New York: �鶹���� Press of America, 1993), pp. 61-84.

"The President and the Postreform Congress," The Postreform Congress, ed. Roger Davidson (New York: St. Martins, 1991).

"Divided Government and the Problem of Governance," Divided Democracy, edited by James A. Thurber (Washington: CQ Press, 1991).

"The Political Appointments Process and the Recruitment of Scientists and Engineers," in Report of the National Academy of Sciences, Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers (Washington: National Academy Press, 1990), pp. 133-142.

"Introduction," with Elliot L. Richardson to Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service [The Volcker Commission]. Report of the National Commission on the Public Service (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990), pp. xii-xxvi.

“Politics and Performance: Strengthening the Executive Leadership System,” with Elliot L. Richardson in Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service [The Volcker Commission]. Report of the National Commission on the Public Service (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990), pp. 209-242.

"Can the President Manage the Government?, in James P. Pfiffner, ed. The Managerial Presidency, 2nd ed. (College Station, TX, 1998), pp. 3-22. Reprinted in: Understanding the Presidency 2nd ed, James P. Pfiffner and Roger H. Davidson eds. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), pp. 226-240.

"Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy," Chapter four of The Strategic Presidency, reprinted in Current Issues in Public Administration edited by Frederick S. Lane (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).

"OMB: Professionalism, Politicization, and the Presidency," in Executive Leadership in Anglo- American Systems, edited by Colin Campbell and Margaret J. Wyszomirski (Pittsburgh, PA: �鶹���� of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), pp. 195-218.

"Presidential Transitions and National Security Policy" in The Constitution and National Security edited by Walter R. Thomas and Howard E. Shuman (Washington, D.C.: National Defense �鶹���� Press, 1990).

"Nine Enemies and One Ingrate: Presidential Appointments During Transition," in The In and Outers: Presidential Appointees and the Problems of Transient Government in Washington, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins �鶹���� Press, 1987).

"Strangers In a Strange Land: Orienting New Presidential Appointees," in The In and Outers, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins �鶹���� Press, 1987).

"Taking Over the Government: Key Tools for a New Administration," in Papers on Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy edited by Frederick C. Mosher (New York: �鶹���� Press of America, 1987).

"The Reagan Budget Juggernaut: The Fiscal 1982 Budget Campaign," in The President and Economic Policy edited by James P. Pfiffner (Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986). Reprinted in: Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, 3rd Edition, edited by Richard J. Stillman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).

"The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Economic Policy," in The President and Economic Policy (Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986).

"Inflexible Budgets, Fiscal Stress, and the Tax Revolt," in The Municipal Money Chase edited by Alberta Sbragia (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.

"California and the Tax Revolt," in California Government in National Perspective edited by Keith Boyum and Philip Gianos (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1984).

Papers Posted on Websites

“Trump’s lies corrode democracy,” The Brookings Institution (April 13, 2018).

“The Unusual Presidency of Donald Trump,” Political Insight (September 2017), pp. 9-11.��

“Why John Kelly can’t tame the White House Chaos, Washington Post (August 18, 2018).��

“Inexperience in the White House breeds friction across the executive branch,” Brookings FixGov Website on the first 100 days of the Trump administration (May 2, 2017).��

“Trump wants a White House that’s not ‘top down.’ Here’s why this won’t work,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, (28 November 2016).

“Trump pledged to reverse Obama’s executive orders. Here’s how well past president have fulfilled that pledge,” with graduate student Joshua Lee. Washington Post, Monkey Cage, (23 January, 2017).

“Why Does Trump Still Have So Many Vacancies to Fill?” Foreign Affairs online (April 27, 2017).

“The Office of Presidential Personnel,” White House Transition Project Report, 2016), pp. 1-30. “Cabinet Secretaries versus the White House Staff,” Posted by Brookings on the .��

“Policy Making in the Bush White House,” (2008 APSA paper cited above) Posted by Brookings in their Issues in Governance Studies paper series.

“Managing the Executive Branch in the 20th Century: Consolidation and Disaggregation” co-authored with Mary Boardman. Posted on Public Administration Review website: Foundations of Public Administration, along with bibliography and model course syllabus.��

Scholarly Reference Works

“The Presidency: Governing” (6,000 words) Oxford Companion to American Politics, edited by David Coates Oxford �鶹���� Press, Oxford, UK, 2013. Vol. II, pp. 220-229.

“Impeachment: The Constitutional Issues,” Oxford Companion to American Politics, edited by David Coates Oxford �鶹���� Press, Oxford, UK, 2013. Vol. II, pp. 526-528.

“Torture, Interrogation, and Fair Trial Procedures,” (2,750 words) Oxford Companion to American Politics, edited by David Coates Oxford �鶹���� Press, Oxford, UK, 2013. Vol. II, pp. 372-376.

“Torture, Issue of, in U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, edited by Timothy J. Lynch, vol. 2, pp. 364-366. Oxford �鶹���� Press, UK and New York, 2012.

“Presidential Transitions,” in The Oxford Handbook of The American Presidency, edited by George C. Edwards and Willaim G. Howell. (Oxford, UK: Oxford �鶹���� Press, 2010), pp. 85-107.

Encyclopedia of the American Presidency edited by Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fisher (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994) Commissioned entries:
Divided Government (750 words)
Managerial Presidency (500 words)
Patronage (1500 words)
Strategic Presidency (750 words)
Departmental Secretaries (2000 words)
Office of Personnel Management (1500 words)
Schedule C Positions (500 words)
Presidential Transitions (2500 words)
White House Personnel Office (1000 words)
The Persian Gulf War (1000 words)

Encyclopedia of the United States Congress edited by Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994). One commissioned article on Presidential Transitions.

Oxford Historical Guide to American Government edited by George T. Kurian (New York: Oxford �鶹���� Press, 1997) Commissioned Entries: Office of Personnel Management (2,000 words) Chief of Staff to the President (1,500 words) White House Office (1,500 words) Executive Office of the President (500 words) Office of Presidential Personnel (500 words) The President’s Cabinet (2,500 words)

The Heritage Guide to the Constitution edited by Matthew Spalding and David Forte (Washington: Regnery, 2005, 2014). Commissioned Entries:
“Pardon Power,” pp. 203-205
“Recommendation Clause,” pp. 217-219 (coauthored)

Popular Press

“Executive Power in the Bush and Obama Administrations,” Presidency Research Group Report (PRG), Spring 2011, pp. 4-5.

Op-ed piece: “Impeachment: The Constitutional Issues” White House Weekly (14 December 1998). [5 days before the House voted on impeachment]

“Rating Scootergate: Washington scandals run the gamut, from greed to sex, but abuse of power threatens the health of our republic,” New York, Newsday, October 30, 2005

"Cutting Staff No Easy Task for Clinton," Maine Sunday Telegram (12 December 1993), 1800 words.

"Building the White House Staff," with Bradley H. Patterson Government Executive (December 1992), pp. 14-16.

"Political Appointees: Fewer is Better," with Elliot L. Richardson, Government Executive (June 1991), pp. 58-59.

"Creating a Real Cabinet," with Elliot L. Richardson, USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119, No. 2544 (September 1990), pp. 10-12. Reprinted in Governing, ed. Roger Davidson and Walter Oleszek (Washington: CQ Press, 1992), pp. 364-368. Reprinted in Bruce Stinebrickner, American Government 91/92 (Guilford, CT Dushkin, 1991), pp. 83-85.

"�鶹���� Cabinet System is a Charade," with Elliot L. Richardson, The New York Times (28 May 1989), op-ed page. "The Twentieth Amendment," The Book of Days: 1988 (Ann Arbor, MI: The Pierian Press, 1987).

"Presidential Succession and Transition," Book of Days: 1987 (Ann Arbor, MI: The Pierian Press, 1986).

Commissions and Panel Reports

National Academy of Public Administration Report, 2012. with Dwight Ink, David Lewis, and Anne O’Connell, “Strengthening Administrative Leadership: Fixing the Appointment Process” 

National Academy of Sciences, Consultant and Staff Member, 1991. Project on "Politically Appointed Scientists and Engineers." Participated in Panel meetings, did research, and helped draft final report. Panel chaired by Kenneth Dam.

Testimony: Statement before the President's Commission on the Federal Appointments Process, printed in the Report of the Commission (Washington: Executive Office of the President, December 1990), pp. 41-47.

National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1990: Project on "Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers." Participated in Panel Meetings, wrote and presented paper: "The Presidential Appointments Process and the Recruitment of Scientists and Engineers." Published in the Final Report of the Project, pp. 133-142. Panel chaired by Alan K. Campbell.

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1990-91: Panel member, Congressional Oversight of Defense Project Participated in series of Panel meetings. Prepared background paper: "Congressional Oversight of Defense Management." Panel Chaired by John O. Marsh.

National Commission on the Public Service (Volcker Commission)
Project Director, Task Force on Political/Career Relationships. Researched/wrote, revised, and edited the Task Force Report: "Politics and Performance: Strengthening the Executive Leadership System," Published by the National Commission on the Public Service, 1989. in Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service, Task Force Reports. Task Force chaired by Elliot L. Richardson.

National Academy of Public Administration, 1987-88
Issue Leader, Presidential Transition Project. Researched, wrote, revised, and edited the report section on the White House Staff and the Cabinet, published as: "Organizing the White House and Consulting with the Cabinet," Chapter Two of The Executive Presidency: Federal Management for the 1990s (Washington: 1988). Panel chaired by Elmer B. Staats.

National Academy of Public Administration, 1984-85
Senior Research Associate, Presidential Appointee Project Collaborated in the collection of an extensive data base on Presidential Appointees from 1964-84, and the writing of: The Presidential Appointee's Handbook (NAPA, 1985) and Leadership in Jeopardy: The Fraying of the Presidential Appointments System, (NAPA, 1985).
Panel chaired by John W. Macy.

Book Reviews

About thirty book reviews in the following journals:

American Political Science Review Presidential Studies Quarterly Public Administration Review Western Political Quarterly Political Science Quarterly Journal of Politics

The Bureaucrat Perspective The Annals Governance

Professional Conferences and Conventions

One or two appearances each year (since 1975) as paper presenter, chair, or panel discussant at annual conventions of the following professional associations, among others: American Political Science Association Center for the Study of the Presidency Midwest Political Science Association

International Lectures and Briefing of Foreign Officials

Griffith �鶹����, Brisbane, Australia, Summer 2013
Visiting Professor and Lecture tour of government agencies and universities: Senate Occasional Lecture, The Theatre, Parliament House, Canberra, July 19 Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, July 18
Office of National Assessments Roundtable Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, luncheon
Griffith �鶹����, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Seminar Australia Institute of International Affairs, Lectures
ACT Branch, Canberra, July 16; Victoria Branch, July 29, Melbourne Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Leadership Institute, July 30, Lecture Monash �鶹����, Melbourne, academic seminar, August 1.

Rothermere American Institute and Nuffield College, Oxford �鶹���� Conference on the American Presidency, “Politics and Polarization: The George W. Bush Presidency” May 25-27, 2006
Paper Presentation: “Presidential Decision Making and the War in Iraq” �鶹���� of Leuven, Belgium
Conference on: “Ethics and Integrity of Governance,” June 2-5, 2005 Leuven, Belgium
Paper presented: “Torture and Public Policy: The Ethics of Interrogation” �鶹���� of Wales, Swansea, October 6-10, 2004, Conference on U.S. Elections
United States Studies Program.
Presentation: “U.S. National Security and the 2004 Presidential Election.” American Politics Group of the United Kingdom
Annual Meeting: November 14, 2003, United States Embassy, London
Keynote address: “John Kennedy and the Transformation of the American Presidency” School of Advanced Study, �鶹���� College London Institute of United States Studies
Conference: “New Challenges for the American Presidency” May 12-13, 2003, British Library Conference Centre
Paper presentation: “George W. Bush: Politics, Policy, and Personality” Embassy of Brazil in Washington, D.C., 13 April 2002
Briefing of members of the President’s Office on presidential transitions Follow-up briefing on the organization of the presidency, spring 2005.

Germany, Paper presentation at conference on “Federalism in Germany and the USA: From Cooperative to Competitive Federalism?” Sponsored by the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Munchen. April 22-24, 1998.

United States Information Agency, Representative of the United States Conference on Management Reform, Institute for Strategic and Developmental Studies Athens, Greece (May 1996)

Briefing of Foreign visitors for USIA and State Department for representatives of the countries of: France, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Poland, Russia (former Soviet Union), Sierra Lione.

United States Information Agency, Lecture tour of Germany Seminars and Lectures at Universities in Munich, Frankfurt, Gottingen, Heidelberg, and Speyer (Summer 1990).

Department of State, Foreign Service Institute briefings and professional development seminars

Professional Development Seminars or Lectures

National War College, National Defense �鶹���� Department of Treasury, Treasury Executive Institute Department of Defense, Inspector General's Office Federal Executive Institute

Office of Personnel Management, Government Executive Institute American Political Science Association, Congressional Fellows Program The Brookings Institution

Executive Seminar Center, Denver, Office of Personnel Management The American �鶹����

Hofstra �鶹����, Hempstead, New York

Harvard Center for International Affairs, Fellows Program

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Graduate School

�鶹���� of Kansas, Keynote Speaker, Conference on War in Iraq, 2004

Television and Radio Programs and Interviews

Voice of America, USIA: 30 March 1999, 26 May 2004. ABC Network Morning News, CNBC News, NVCC TV, WORLDNET (USIA), Voice of America, Tros Aktua Televisie (The Netherlands)

Newsweek on Air, Canadian Broadcasting Radio
C-SPAN, Series of interviews on White House Organization (November 1996) C-SPAN, presentation on the Clinton Presidency, Hempstead, NY:
Hofstra �鶹����, 12 November 2005 (aired November 24, 2005)

News Reporting Interviews and Quotes

The New Yorker
The New York Times The Washington Post Wall Street Journal Associated Press
Los Angeles Times National Journal Congressional Quarterly Christian Science Monitor Business Week
USA Today

Editor of Book Series, 1996-2014

"The Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies" Texas A & M �鶹���� Press

34 books published, 1996-2014

Editorial Boards

Journal of Public Administration and Theory (1996-2002)
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Editor of The Contemporary Presidency Feature responsible for commissioning one article for each issue, 2000- present.

Book Manuscripts Reviewed

Westview Press
Johns Hopkins �鶹���� Press New York �鶹���� Press Brooks/Cole Publishing
The Dorsey Press Duxbury Press
W.H. Freeman
�鶹���� of Tennessee Press Nelson Hall Publishers
State �鶹���� of New York Press Greenwood Press
F.E. Peacock
St. Martin's Press Cambridge �鶹���� Press
�鶹���� of Pittsburgh Press �鶹���� Press of Kansas
Texas A & M �鶹���� Press Columbia �鶹���� Press New York �鶹���� Press AW Longman
Cambridge �鶹���� Press Palgrave Macmillan
Roman and Littlefield Princeton �鶹���� Press

Reviewer of Articles submitted to: American Political Science Review Public Administration Review

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Public Budgeting and Finance
Congress and the Presidency Western Political Quarterly
Presidential Studies Quarterly (5-6 per year) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management State and Local Government Review Political Science Quarterly
American Politics Research Intelligence and National Security

�鶹���� Service

Chair, Second Level Promotion and Tenure Committee, Schar School 2016-17 Chair, Second Level Promotion and Tenure Committee, S-CAR 2015-16 Chair, Second Level Promotion and Tenure Committee, PIA, 2014-15

Member, Provost Committee to Review Appeal of Dean’s Report, S-CAR, 2016 Chair, Search Committee for several positions, SPP 2005-2006, 20010-2011 Chair, SPP Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2012-13

Strategic Planning Committee for George Mason �鶹����, appointed by the president, 2013. �鶹���� Life Committee, appointed by the President, 1991-92

Robinson Recruitment Committee, 1987-1995 Provost Search Committee, 1987-88

Public Policy Program Development and Search Committee, 1987-88 �鶹���� Faculty Search Committee for Senior Faculty Position in Applied Physics and National Security (1988) Graduate Council, 1987-88

Department Search Committees
Position in Soviet Politics (1988) Position in Public Policy (1988) Department Chair Search (1989-91)
Three positions in Public Administration (1995-96) Political Theory Search (1999)
MPA Director Search (2000-2001) MPA Screening Committee (1991-92) Public Policy PhD Development Committee

Dean's Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1991-1993 College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1994-1997

Chair, Provost’s Committee to Evaluate the Dean of the Law School, 2001 Chair, Search Committee for the Hazel and Hirst Chairs, SPP, 2003-2004

Professional Service

Steering Committee, Presidential Studies Group, 1984-1990 American Political Science Association

Advisory Board, Public Administration Group, 1982-1988 American Political Science Association

Academic Board of Advisors
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, 1980 - The American �鶹����

President, National Capital Area Political Science Association 1990-91, Member of Board, 1985-95

Academic Judge for the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, 1992, 1993, 1994

Brownlow Book Award Committee
National Academy of Public Administration, 1999.

Chair, Committee to select the best dissertation on the presidency, annual award Bush School of Public Service, Texas A&M �鶹����, 1997-2001.

Fellows Selection Committee, National Academy of Public Administration 2003-2004.