Recent Papers
George C. Edwards III, "Riding High in the Polls: George W. Bush and Public Opinion," 2003.
George C. Edwards III, "George W. Bush's Strategic Presidency," 2003.
George C. Edwards III, “Does the Messenger Matter? The Role of Charisma in Public Leadership,” 2002.
Published in Congress and the Presidency 29 (Spring 2002).
George C. Edwards III, “Strategic Choices and the Early Bush Legislative Agenda,” 2002.
Published in PS: Political Science, March 2002.
Reprinted in Martha J. Kumar and Terry Sullivan, eds. The White House World:
Transitions,
Organization, and Office Operations
(
2003).
George C. Edwards III, “The Myth of the Bully Pulpit,” 2002.
Published in Public Perspective, July/August 2002.
George C. Edwards III, “Why Not the Best? The Loyalty–Competence Trade-Off in Presidential Appointments,” 2001.
Published in G. Calvin Mackenzie, ed., Innocent until Nominated (Brookings Institution, 2001).
George C. Edwards III, “Can the President Focus
the Public's Attention?” 2001. Annual Meeting of the
George C. Edwards III, "Coalition Building," 2000.
Published in Presidential Studies Quarterly (March 2000): 47-78.
George C. Edwards III and Andrew Barrett, "Presidential Agenda Setting in Congress," 2000.
Published in Jon R. Bond and Richard Fleisher, eds., Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era (Congressional Quarterly, 2000).
George C. Edwards III, "The President and Congress in the First Hundred Days: Four Strategic Considerations ," 2000.
Published in David Abshire, ed., Triumphs and Tragedies
of the Modern Presidency (
George C. Edwards III, "Neustadt's Power Approach to the Presidency," 2000.
Published in Martha Joynt Kumar, Robert Y. Shapiro, and
George C. Edwards III, "Presidential Persuasion: Does the Public Respond?" 2000 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
George C. Edwards III, “The Balanced Budget Act of 1997,” 2000.
Published in David Abshire, ed., in Triumphs and Tragedies in the Modern Presidency (Center for the Study of the Presidency, 2000).
George C. Edwards III, et al., “Meeting the Freight Train Head On: Planning for the Transition to Power,” 2000.
Published in Presidential Studies Quarterly 30
(December 2000): 754-769. Reprinted in Martha J. Kumar and Terry Sullivan, eds.
The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office
Operations (
George C. Edwards III, "George Bush and Public Opinion," 2000.
Published in William F. Levantrosser and Rosanna Perotti, eds., George Bush (Greenwood Press, forthcoming).
George C. Edwards III, “Henry Jones Ford and the American Presidency,” 1999.
Published in PS: Political Science, June 1999.
George C. Edwards III, "Campaigning is Not Governing: Bill Clinton's Rhetorical Presidency," 1999.
Published in Colin Campbell and Bert Rockman, eds., The
George C. Edwards III, "Grasping Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Republican Interpretations of the 1998 House Elections," 1999.
Published in
George C. Edwards III, "Evaluating Presidential Performance in Congress," 1999. Published in Steven A. Shull, ed., Presidential Policymaking (M.E. Sharpe, 1999).
George C. Edwards III and B. Dan Wood, "Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress, and the Media," 1999.
Published in American Political Science Review 93 (June 1999): 327-344.
George C. Edwards III, "Bill Clinton and his Crisis of Governance," 1997.
Published in Presidential Studies Quarterly 28 (Fall 1998).
George C. Edwards III, "Aligning Tests with Theory: Presidential Approval as a Source of Influence in Congress," 1997.
Published in Congress and the Presidency 24 (Fall 1997): 113-130.
George C. Edwards III, Andrew Barrett and Jeffrey Peake, "The Legislative Impact of Divided Government," 1997.
Published in American Journal of Political Science 41 (April 1997): 545-563.