Spring 2019

Professor: Dr. Jay DeSart

• Course Syllabus
  
• Links
  • The Federalist Papers
    • Federalist No. 68: The Mode of Electing the President
    • Federalist No. 70: The Executive Department Further Considered
  • The U.S. Constitution: Article II
  
  
• Overheads
  • The Presidential Dilemma
  • Constitutional Roles of the President
  • Scholarly Models of the Presidency
  • The Delegate Selection Process
  • 2004 State Presidential Primary Expenditure Limits
  • Campaign Effects in Presidential Elections
  • Presidential Approval
  • What Makes a President a "Great" President?
  • Barber's Presidential Character Types
  • Renshon's Dimensions of Presidential Personality
  • Sources of Presidential-Congressional Conflict
  • Presidential Power and the Courts
  • The Presidential Budgetary Policy Process