... University which received a total of $29.2 billion in 2006 and the University of Michigan with $4.9 billion. This chapter suggests that the pursuit of money is at the heart of modern university administration and university presidents are judged by their fundraising prowess. Kelch Robert P Arizona State...

...Using four extensive data sets collectively covering seven decades, this chapter examines how attitudes toward presidents and their parties come to be linked in the public mind. The focus is on the affective component of political evaluations: how partisanship influences expressed feelings about...

...Presidents and presidential candidates influence voters’ decisions in down-ballot races both directly and indirectly and thus contribute crucially to their party’s performance on election day. Direct influence occurs through coattail effects in presidential election years and job performance rating...

...This chapter introduces the book’s main arguments and offers a brief outline of each of the chapters to come. It notes that the reciprocal bonds between American presidents and their political parties are nearly as old as the Republic, but that the connection took on a new form with the decline...

...This chapter examines how, during the four most recently completed administrations (G.H.W. Bush through Barack Obama), popular assessments of each president’s performance affected the incidence of favorable or positive opinions of their parties generally and of their congressional wings...

...This chapter looks at presidential effects on mass partisanship over the long term, assessing the direction and durability of each postwar president’s influence on party fortunes through a process of generational imprinting. Systematic variations across generations in aggregate partisanship reflect...

...This chapter summarizes the findings reported in the previous chapters. It notes that although every post-war president has had a demonstrable impact on his party’s public standing, the size of that impact has varied somewhat across presidencies. These variations do not, however, map readily onto...

...This book reports extensive analyses of a vast and diverse set of survey studies of presidential candidates, presidents, and their parties that have accumulated over the past seven decades to demonstrate that modern presidents from Truman to Trump have had a profound, pervasive, and lasting impact...

...This chapter explores in detail how perceptions of presidents and presidential candidates’ ideological and policy positions affect perceptions of their parties’ positions on these same dimensions. Their influence is pervasive and remarkably consistent over time, across dimensions, and among...

...This chapter reviews theories of party identification to assess the president’s potential for influencing partisan attachments. It provides evidence that popular assessments of the president’s performance influence both individual and mass partisanship, but when reactions to a president push...

...This chapter argues that popular reactions to recent presidents have consistently reinforced the widening demographic, cultural, ideological, and even cognitive differences between ordinary Republicans and Democrats. Presidential candidates and presidents have thus been both the instruments...

...This chapter argues that presidents can no longer afford to approach the civil service with suspicion and disdain. Progressive presidents are especially ill served by these dynamics because they are a major factor in demoralizing the civil service, slowing regulation, and making agencies...

... presidential electoral performance and the fate of Supreme Court nominees. Presidents who performed well at the polls fared far better with their nominations in comparison to those who won narrow victories or who weren’t elected at all. The power of the ballot box held true for much of American history...

...—was willing to challenge the ideological direction that presidents—most often Republicans—wanted to take the Court. While these Republican presidents had been dominant on Election Day, as they sought to move the Court to the right, Senate Democrats—and often a fair number of Republicans—resisted. They did so...