About this ebook
Never losing sight of the foundations of the political office, The Politics of the Presidency maintains a balance between historical context and contemporary scholarship on the executive branch, providing a solid foundation for any presidency course. In the highly anticipated Tenth Edition of this bestseller, Pika, Maltese, and Rudalevige thoroughly analyze the change and continuity in the presidency during President Trump′s first term, his relations with Congress and the judiciary, the outcomes of the 2018 midterm election, and the competitive setting for the 2020 presidential race.
About the author
Joseph A. Pika is the James R. Soles professor emeritus of political science and internationalrelations at the University of Delaware. He holds a PhD from the Universityof Wisconsin and taught previously at SUNY at Buffalo. He is coauthor with Jason D.Mycoff of Conflict & Compromise: Presidential and Congressional Leadership, 2001–2006 and coauthor with John Anthony Maltese and H. Phillips Shively of AmericanDemocracy in Context. He served for seven years on the Delaware State Board ofEducation, four years as president.
John Anthony Maltese is the Albert B. Saye professor of political science and associatedean of the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs and wasnamed a University professor in 2023 in recognition of significant impact on the universitybeyond normal academic responsibilities. He holds a PhD from Johns HopkinsUniversity. He is the author of The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees and Spin Control:The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News,and coauthor with Joseph A. Pika and H. Phillips Shively of American Democracy inContext. He is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and was named the2004 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council forAdvancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Maltese also writes aboutclassical music, for which he won a Grammy Award from the National Academy ofRecording Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Rudalevige is the Thomas Brackett Reed professor of government at BowdoinCollege and former chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidentsand Executive Politics section; in 2023-2024 he is a visiting professor at the LondonSchool of Economics. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and won the RichardE. Neustadt Prize from the American Political Science Association for best book on theU.S. presidency in 2003 and 2022, as well as the 2022 Louis Brownlow Prize from theNational Academy of Public Administration. His books include By Executive Order,Managing the President’s Program, The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing PresidentialPower after Watergate, and, as coeditor, a volume on the Office of Management andBudget and a series assessing recent presidencies. Prior to his academic career, heworked in state and local politics in Massachusetts.
