Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Public Expectations of the President and Presidential Policy-making Behavior
2. Presidential Leadership, Responsiveness, and the Agenda-setting Process: The President's Most Important Problem
3. The Substantive Content of Presidential Agendas
4. Presidential Responsiveness and Policy Formulation
5. Presidential Ideology and Public Opinion: A More Detailed Look
6. Policy Legitimation and Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion
7. Presidential Policy Decisions and Responsiveness to Public Opinion I: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon
8. Presidential Policy Decisions and Responsiveness to Public Opinion II: Reagan, Bush, and Clinton
9. Conclusions
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index