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Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1975), Political Science
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972), Political Science
B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1968), Political Science
Experience
1984-
George Mason University, University Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Government and Politics 1987-2001 (Associate Professor, 1984-87)
2007 (Jan-July)
S.T. Lee Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London
1997
Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institutions (January-August 1997)
1980-84
California State University, Fullerton
Associate Professor of Political Science
1980-81
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Special Assistant, Office of the Director
1978-80
California State University, Fullerton
Assistant Professor of Political Science
1975-80
University of California, Riverside
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Administration
1974-75
Brookings Institution, Research Fellow
1971-74
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Teaching Assistant
1969-70
U.S. Army, Vietnam/Cambodia
Section Chief, Fire Direction Center
A Battery, 1/8 Artillery, 25th Infantry Division
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Instructor in Artillery Gunnery
Honors and Awards
College of Arts and Sciences, Scholarly Award, George Mason University, 1999.
National Academy of Public Administration, elected member.
Distinguished Faculty Award, George Mason University, 1990.
Brookings Institution, Visiting Scholar (Summer 1983).
John Brown Mason Professorship, California State University, Fullerton (1983-84).
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs & Admin. Faculty Fellowship (1981-82).
Army Commendation Medal for Valor, (with “V” device) Vietnam/Cambodia (1970).
Who’s Who in America, 2000; Who’s Who in the World, 2010.
Books
The President, the Budget, and Congress: Impoundment and the 1974 Budget Act
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979).
The President and Economic Policy (editor)
(Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986.
The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running
(Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988).
Second Edition: (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996)
The Presidency in Transition, co-edited with R. Gordon Hoxie
(New York: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1989).
The Managerial Presidency, edited
(Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991).
Second edition: (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999).
The Presidency and the Persian Gulf War, co-edited with Marcia Whicker and Raymond Moore
(Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993).
The Modern Presidency (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
Second Edition (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)
Third Edition (New York: Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2000)
Fourth Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2005)
Fifth Edition (Belmond, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, forthcoming 2007)
Governance and American Politics: Classic and Current Perspectives, edited
(Harcourt, Brace, and Company; 1995).
Understanding the Presidency, co-edited with Roger H. Davidson.
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997).
Second Edition (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000).
Third Edition (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2003).
Fourth Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007).
Fifth Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008).
The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act, co-edited with Douglas A. Brook (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
The Character Factor: How We Judge America’s Presidents, (College Station: 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.
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives
Co-edited with Mark Phythian (Manchester University Press, co-published in the United States by Texas A&M University Press, 2008).
Power Play: The Bush Administration and the Constitution
(Washington: The Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
Torture as Public Policy, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010).
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
“Decision Making in the Bush White House,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (June 2009), pp. 363-384.
“Presidential Signing Statements and Their Implications for Public Administration,”Public Administration Review Vol. 69, No. 2 (March/April 2009), pp. 249-255.
Pfiffner, J. P. “Constraining Executive Power: George W. Bush and the Constitution.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 38, no. 1 (2008): 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.
Reprinted in Richard J. Stillman, ed. Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010), pp. 454-465.
“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 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.
“Meeting the Freight Train Head on: Planning for the Transition to power,” (co-author) Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol 30, No. 4 (December 2000), pp. 754-769.
Reprinted in: The White House World edited by Martha Kumar and Terry Sullivan (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press), pp. 5-24/
“Presidential Lies,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 903-917.
“Sexual Probity and Presidential Character,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. XXVIII, No. 4 (Fall 1998), pp. 881-887.
“The Public Service Ethic in the New Public Personnel Systems,” Public Personnel Management, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 541-555.
"The National Performance Review in Perspective," International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 20, No. 1 (1997), pp. 41-70.
"The President's Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1993), pp. 77-102.
Reprinted in: The Managerial Presidency, 2nd ed., James P. Pfiffner editor (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1998), pp. 75-104.
"Establishing the Bush Presidency," Public Administration Review (January/February 1990), 64-72.
"The 1988-89 Presidential Transition," Presidency Research, Vol. XI, No. 2 (Spring 1989), p.18-30.
"The President's Legislative Agenda," The Annals Vol. 499 (September 1988), pp. 22-35.
Reprinted in: Randall Ripley and Elliot Slotnick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 1993, pp. 353-362.
"Thirteen Year Paper Chase: The Nixon Archives," Presidency Research (Spring 1987), pp. 15-20).
"Political Appointees and Career Executives: The Democracy-Bureaucracy Nexus in the Third Century," Public Administration Review (January/February 1987), pp. 57-65.
Reprinted in: The American Constitution and the Administrative State edited by Richard Stillman (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989).
Reprinted in: The Managerial Presidency edited by James P. Pfiffner (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole 1991).
Reprinted in: Agenda for Excellence edited by Patricia Ingraham and Donald Kettl (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1992).
"White House Staff versus the Cabinet: Centripetal and Centrifugal Roles," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1986) pp.666-90.
Reprinted in: Readings In American Government and Politics edited by Randall Ripley and Elliot Slotnick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), pp. 429-439; 2nd ed., 1993, pp. 322-331.
"Learning From Presidential Transfers," Presidency Research (Fall 1985), pp. 15-19).
"The Federal Budget: Policy, Process, and Politics," Congress and the Presidency (Autumn 1985), pp. 193-197).
"Political Public Administration," Public Administration Review (March/April 1985), pp. 352-356).
"Budgetary Crisis and Congressional Spending," Policy Studies Journal (March 1983), pp. 539-545).
"The Challenge of Federal Management in the 1980s," Public Administration Quarterly (Summer 1983), pp. 162-182).
"The Carter-Reagan Transition: Hitting the Ground Running," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1983), pp. 623-645.
"Presidential Personnel Policy," Presidency Research (Spring 1982), pp. 2-6.
"Management and Central Controls Reconsidered," The Bureaucrat (Winter 1981-82), pp. 13-16.
"Budgeting and the 'People's Reform'," Public Administration Review (March/April 1980), pp. 194-200.
Book Chapters
“President Bush as Chief Executive,” in Robert Maranto, et al., Judging Bush (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), pp. 58-74.
“Presidential Transitions,” in George C. Edwards and William G. Howell, eds. The Oxford Handbook of The American Presidency (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009) pp. 85-107.
“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, 2009), pp. 37-60 (revised for 4th edition).
“George W. Bush as Chief Executive,” in Andrew Wroe and Jon Herbert, Assessing the Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms? (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2009).
“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, 2008); . U.S. edition: Texas A&M University Press, 2008, pp. 1-16.
“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, 2008); U.S. edition: Texas A&M University Press, 2008, pp. 213-232.
“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, 2008, pp. 161-172.
“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.
Pfiffner, J. P. "Torture as Public Policy." In Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, 2nd Edition, edited by W. Richter and F. Burke. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
“Do Presidents Lie?”, in George C. Edwards, Readings in Presidential Politics (Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2006), pp. 159-181.
Pfiffner, J. P. “Pardon Power.” In The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, edited by Matthew Spalding & David Forte, 203-205. Washington: Regenery, 2005.
Pfiffner, J. P. “Recommendation Clause.” In The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, edited by Matthew Spalding & David Forte, 217-219. Washington: Regnery, 2005.
“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, 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.
“The Paradox of Governmental Power,” in Moorhead Kennedy, et. al, The Moral Authority of Government (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000), pp. 183-188.
“Character and the Modern Presidency: Multi-Dimensional or Seamless?” in Clyde Wilcox and Mark Rozell eds.The Clinton Scandal (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2000), pp. 225-255..
“Government Legitimacy and the Role of the Civil Service,” in James P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook, eds. The Future of Merit Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Press, 2000), pp. 15-38.
“Presidential Constraints and Transitions.” in Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Ed. Steven A. Shull. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp, 1999). pp. 19-37.
“President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the 104th Congress.” in On Parties: Essays Honoring Austin Ranney. Eds. Nelson W. Polsby and Raymond E. Wolfinger (Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 2000). pp. 135-168.
“President Clinton’s Impeachment and Senate Trial,” in Understanding the Presidency, 2nd ed. edited by James P. Pfiffner and Roger H. Davidson (NY: Longman, 2000).
“The American Tradition of Administrative Reform,” in The White House and the Blue House: Government Reform in the United States and Korea eds., Yong Hyo Cho and H. George Frederickson (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998).
“Ronald Reagan’s Contrasting Chiefs of Staff,” in Ronald Reagan’s America, edited by Eric J. Schmertz, et. al. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 493-502.
"President Clinton and the 103rd Congress: Winning Battles and Losing Wars," in Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, edited by James Thurber (Washington: CQ Press, 1996), pp. 170-190.
"Governance," in Governance V: Institutions and Issues, ed. Kenneth Thompson (New York: University Press of America, 1994), pp. 113-134.
“Presidential Policy Making and the Gulf War,” in The Presidency and the Persian Gulf War, co-edited Marcia Whicker, James Pfiffner, and Raymond Moore (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993), pp. 3-24.
Reprinted in: Understanding the Presidency, eds. James P. Pfiffner and Roger Davidson (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), pp. 405-415.
"The Bush Transition: Symbols and Substance," in Presidential Transitions: The Reagan to Bush Experience ed. Kenneth Thompson (New York: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 61-84.
"The President and the Postreform Congress," The Postreform Congress, ed. Roger Davidson (New York: St. Martins, 1991).
"Divided Government and the Problem of Governance,"
Divided Democracy, edited by James A. Thurber (Washington: CQ Press, 1991).
"The Political Appointments Process and the Recruitment of Scientists and Engineers," in Report of the National Academy of Sciences, Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers (Washington: National Academy Press, 1990), pp. 133-142.
"Introduction," with Elliot L. Richardson to Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service [The Volcker Commission]. Report of the National Commission on the Public Service (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990), pp. xii-xxvi.
“Politics and Performance: Strengthening the Executive Leadership System,” with Elliot L. Richardson in Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service [The Volcker Commission]. Report of the National Commission on the Public Service (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990), pp.209-242.
"Can the President Manage the Government?, in James P. Pfiffner, ed. The Managerial Presidency, 2nd ed. (College Station, TX, 1998), pp. 3-22.
Reprinted in: Understanding the Presidency 2nd ed, James P. Pfiffner and Roger H. Davidson eds. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), pp. 226-240.
"Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy," Chapter four of The Strategic Presidency, reprinted in Current Issues in Public Administration edited by Frederick S. Lane (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).
"OMB: Professionalism, Politicization, and the Presidency," in Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems, edited by Colin Campbell and Margaret J. Wyszomirski (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), pp. 195-218.
"Presidential Transitions and National Security Policy" in The Constitution and National Security edited by Walter R. Thomas and Howard E. Shuman (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1990).
"Nine Enemies and One Ingrate: Presidential Appointments During Transition," in The In and Outers: Presidential Appointees and the Problems of Transient Government in Washington, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
"Strangers In a Strange Land: Orienting New Presidential Appointees," in The In and Outers, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
"Taking Over the Government: Key Tools for a New Administration," in Papers on Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy edited by Frederick C. Mosher (New York: University Press of America, 1987).
"The Reagan Budget Juggernaut: The Fiscal 1982 Budget Campaign," in The President and Economic Policy edited by James P. Pfiffner (Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986).
Reprinted in: Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, 3rd Edition, edited by Richard J. Stillman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
"The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Economic Policy," in The President and Economic Policy (Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1986).
"Inflexible Budgets, Fiscal Stress, and the Tax Revolt," in The Municipal Money Chase edited by Alberta Sbragia (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.
"California and the Tax Revolt," in California Government in National Perspective edited by Keith Boyum and Philip Gianos (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1984).
Presentations and Proceedings
Pfiffner, J. P. “Campaigns, Transitions, and Congress.” Presented at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., 2008.
Pfiffner, J. P. “Policy Making in the Bush White House.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Convention, Boston, MA, 2008.
Pfiffner, J. P. “The Presidency and Ethics.” Presented at Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, 2008.
Pfiffner, J. P. “George W. Bush and the Use of Executive Power.” Presented at Conference on the Presidency of George W. Bush, Villanova University, 2008.
Pfiffner, J. P. Presentation on presidential transitions. Presented at National Academy of Public Administration Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2008.
“Rating Scootergate: Washington scandals run the gamut, from greed to sex, but abuse of power threatens the health of our republic,” New York, Newsday, October 30, 2005
"Building the White House Staff," with Bradley H. Patterson
Government Executive (December 1992), pp. 14-16.
"Political Appointees: Fewer is Better," with Elliot L. RichardsonGovernment Executive (June 1991), pp. 58-59.
"Creating a Real Cabinet," with Elliot L. Richardson,
USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119, No. 2544 (September 1990), pp. 10-12.
Reprinted in Governing, ed. Roger Davidson and Walter Oleszek
(Washington: CQ Press, 1992), pp. 364-368.
Reprinted in Bruce Stinebrickner, American Government 91/92
(Guilford, CT Dushkin, 1991), pp. 83-85.
"Our Cabinet System is a Charade," with Elliot L. Richardson, The New York Times (28 May 1989), editorial page.
Testimony: Statement before the President's Commission on the Federal Appointments Process, printed in the Report of the Commission (Washington: Executive Office of the President, December 1990), pp. 41-47.
Department of State, Foreign Service Institute briefings and professional development seminars
United States Information Agency, Representative of the United States Conference on Management Reform, Institute for Strategic and Developmental Studies, Athens, Greece (May 1996)
Germany, Paper presentation at conference on “Federalism in Germany and the USA: From Cooperative to Competitive Federalism?” Sponsored by the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Munchen. April 22-24, 1998.
University of Wales, Swansea, October 6-10, 2004, Conference on U.S. Elections
United States Studies Program.
Presentation: “U.S. National Security and the 2004 Presidential Election.”