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).

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

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).

Understanding the Presidency, 4th ed., co-edited with Roger H. Davidson (NY: Longman, 2007).

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

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

The Presidency and the Gulf War co-edited (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993).

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

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)