Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Presidency -- Landslides, No Slides, and Presidential Power -- Pictures in Our Heads -- The Dominant Perspective: Unitarianism and Party Government -- Variations in Party Splits -- Variations in Presidential Advantages -- An Alternative Perspective: Separationism and a Government of Parties -- The Neustadt Formulation -- The Politics of Partisan Variations -- Change within Presidencies -- Chapter 2. Presidents and the Presidency -- How They Come to Be There -- Standing on Entering Office -- Who They Are -- Governing Incentives -- Chapter 3. Organizing to Govern in the Separated System -- The Presidential Branch -- Cabinet Secretaries: Reaching Within -- Organizational Experience of Postwar Presidencies -- Organizing and Adapting -- Chapter 4. Public Standing of the President -- The Most Popular Presidents -- Approval Ratings and the Diffusion of Responsibility -- Going Public -- The Public Standing of Postwar Presidents -- Public Approval and the Work of Government -- Chapter 5. Presidents, Mandates, and Agendas -- Elections and Agendas in the Constitution -- The Mandate -- Judgments about Mandates -- The Continuing Agenda -- Agenda-Related Concepts -- Postwar Presidents and the Agenda -- Summary -- Chapter 6. Presidents and Lawmaking in a Separated System -- The Nature of Lawmaking -- Presidential Success with Congress -- Legislative Production: What Gets Done and When -- Legislative Time Lines -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Making Laws -- Presidential Preponderance -- Congressional Preponderance -- Joint Participation -- Sequence, Speculation, Iteration, and Partisanship -- Applying the Lessons to Clinton and Bush 43 -- Chapter 8. Thinking about Change -- Presidents and the Presidency -- Reform and Change.

Lessons for Presidents -- The Presidency in a Separated System -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.