Much is known in political science about the influence of voter demographics (such as gender and the 'gender gap') on voter preferences. However, much of this research has not addressed whether age influences vote choice, and therefore, whether a 'generation gap' exists. Do differences in voter...

Is the current partisan information environment cueing threat in its coverage of Barack Obama's presidency? When President Obama first took office, he entered a climate of support that was both bipartisan and ethnically diverse. Two months later, he held the most polarized early job approval...

The Cold War security order was characterized by a massive transfer of warmaking authority from Congress to the presidency. Presidentialists especially cite the Korean War as a location where the president appropriately exercised his war authority under the Commander-in-Chief clause. Partisans...

Presidency scholars have advanced three typologies to explain the evolution of the executive office. The constitutional school describes the traditional power balance between the legislature and executive. The rhetorical school argues that presidents have sought to place themselves as the head...

In this paper I examine the reasons for, and the impact of, presidential campaigning on the voting behavior of the U.S. Congress. Building off prior research in this area, I look at a particular aspect of campaigning — the endorsement of congressional candidates — as manifested in the public...

The assertion that the presidency is a 'coequal branch' in the American system of government has often been repeated by recent presidents. But tracing the history of the concept demonstrates that this assertion is an invention of quite recent vintage. We performed keyword searches in the...

This paper proposes that the failed presidencies in Argentina since the reinstallation of democracy in 1983 were caused by institutional flaws of the Argentine presidential system itself. While focusing on the failed presidential term of Fernando de La Rua, I argue that the premature departures...