James Pfiffner
University Professor

Books
Intelligence and National Security Policy Making on Iraq: British and American Views (co-edited with Mark Phythian), Manchester University Press, 2008.

Power Play: The Bush Administration and the Constitution (Brooking Institution, 2008).

Understanding the Presidency, 5th ed., co-edited with Roger H. Davidson (NY: Longman, 2008).

The Modern Presidency, 5th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2007).

The Character Factor: How We Judge America’s Presidents (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University 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 & Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

The Managerial Presidency, 2nd ed., edited, (Texas A&M University Press, 1999).

Governance and American Politics: Classic and Current Perspectives, edited, (Fort Worth, TX:  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 Presidency in Transition, co-edited, (NY: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1989).

The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running  (Chicago: Dorsey Press,1988)
(Second edition: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996).

The President and Economic Policy, edited (Philadelphia, PA: ISHI Press, 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).

Scholarly Journal Articles
“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.

“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) forthcoming.

“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
4 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 University Press), pp. 165-192.

Book Chapters
“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 University Press, forthcoming 2008).

“Decision Making, 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 University Press, forthcoming 2008).

“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, forthcoming 2008.

“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 University 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, 2005), pp. 203-214.

“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,
6 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 University 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.