Books
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Prisoners of Their Premises: How Unexamined Assumptions Lead
    to War and Other Policy Debacles (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership                      (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, 3rd ed. (Yale UP, 2019). 
    1st ed., 2004; 2nd ed., 2011

Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership​ (Princeton       ​UP, 2016)

Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency  (Princeton UP, 2012).

The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential 
    Leadership (Princeton UP, 2009).

The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency  (Oxford UP, 2009), co-
    editor.

The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush (Oxford UP, 2007), co-
    editor.

Governing by Campaigning: The Politics of the Bush Presidency, 2nd ed. 
    (Longman, 2007). 1st ed., 2006.

Presidential Politics  (Wadsworth, 2005).

New Challenges for the American Presidency  (Longman, 2004), co-editor.

On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit  (Yale UP, 2003).

Researching the Presidency  (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), co-editor.

Presidential Approval  (Johns Hopkins UP, 1990). 

At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress  (Yale UP, 1989).

National Security and the U.S. Constitution  (Johns Hopkins UP, 1988),
    co-editor.

The Presidency and Public Policy Making  (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1985), 
    co-editor.

Public Policy Implementation  (JAI Press, 1984), editor.

The Public Presidency  (St. Martin's, 1983).

Studying the Presidency  (U. of Tennessee Press, 1983), co-editor.

Implementing Public Policy  (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1980).

Presidential Influence in Congress  (W.H. Freeman, 1980).

The Policy Predicament  (W.H. Freeman, 1978), co-author.
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Perspectives on Public Policy-Making  (Tulane, 1975), co-editor.
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Textbooks
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Government in America, 2020 Presidential Election Edition, (Pearson, 2021), co-author.

Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy Making, 12th ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), co-author.
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Selected Articles
 
Exclusive Interview with President Jimmy Carter
Presidential Studies Quarterly 38.1 (May 2007).

“Who Influences Whom?  The President, Congress, and the Media” 
American Political Science Review 93 (June 1999): 327-344.

“Who Rallies?  The Anatomy of a Rally Event” 
Journal of Politics 59 (February 1997): 200-212.

“The Legislative Impact of Divided Government” 
American Journal of Political Science 41 (April 1997): 545-563.

“Explaining Presidential Approval: The Significance of Issue Salience” 
American Journal of Political Science 39 (February 1995): 108-134.

 “Presidential Influence in Congress: If We Ask the Wrong Questions, We Get the Wrong Answers” 
American Journal of Political Science 35 (August 1991): 724-729.

“Measuring Presidential Success in Congress: Alternative Approaches”
  Journal of Politics, 47 (May 1985).

“Presidential Electoral Performance as a Source of Presidential Power” 
American Journal of Political Science 22 (February 1978): 152-168.

“Presidential Influence in the House: Presidential Prestige as a Source of Presidential Power” 
American Political Science Review 70 (March 1976): 101-113.