The provisional pulpit: modern presidential leadership of public opinion

Questions and quandaries of presidential leadership

The constrained presidency: a conditional theory of presidential leadership

Presidential (non-) leadership of public opinion

Successful presidential leadership of public opinion

Case studies of successful leadership (domestic policy)

Nixon implements wage and price controls

Reagan and the negotiation over the budget

Clinton and the budget debate

Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (domestic policy)

Kennedy's Medicare proposal

Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now'

Reagan 'reforms' social security

Case studies of successful leadership (foreign policy)

Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy

Carter on the Panama Canal treaties

Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War

Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (foreign policy)

Nixon (temporarily) escalates Vietnam

Reagan presses for 'contra' funding

Clinton withdraws from Somalia

Implications for leadership and the public presidency

Epilogue: Presidents 43 and 44

Appendix A. Case selection and matching statements and opinion polling

Appendix B. Case study selection and archival data collection

Appendix C. Models and data.