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From the authors of
The Politics of the Presidency comes this new supplement examining the unprecedented administration of Donald J. Trump. With their trademark balance between historical context, the current political environment, and contemporary scholarship on the executive branch, Joseph A. Pika, John Anthony Maltese, and Andrew Rudalevige offer students in American politics a brief but thorough overview of the Trump presidency's first year of office. From the transition to the Russia investigation,
Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump grounds the ongoing news cycle in a deeper analysis of the executive branch, encouraging you to draw connections between current events and broader political science concepts. Whether packaged with another CQ Press title or used on its own,
Understanding a New Presidency will give you the insight you need.
List of contents
The Transition
The Inauguration
The First Hundred Days
The Next Hundred Days and Beyond
Foreign Policy
President Trump: A Natural Experiment
Notes
About the author
Joseph A. Pika is the James R. Soles professor emeritus of political science and international
relations at the University of Delaware. He holds a PhD from the University
of Wisconsin and taught previously at SUNY at Buffalo. He is coauthor with Jason D.
Mycoff of Conflict & Compromise: Presidential and Congressional Leadership, 2001–
2006 and coauthor with John Anthony Maltese and H. Phillips Shively of American
Democracy in Context. He served for seven years on the Delaware State Board of
Education, four years as president.
John Anthony Maltese is the Albert B. Saye professor of political science and associate
dean of the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs and was
named a University professor in 2023 in recognition of significant impact on the university
beyond normal academic responsibilities. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins
University. He is the author of The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees and Spin Control:
The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News,
and coauthor with Joseph A. Pika and H. Phillips Shively of American Democracy in
Context. He is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and was named the
2004 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Maltese also writes about
classical music, for which he won a Grammy Award from the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Rudalevige is the Thomas Brackett Reed professor of government at Bowdoin
College and former chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents
and Executive Politics section; in 2023-2024 he is a visiting professor at the London
School of Economics. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and won the Richard
E. Neustadt Prize from the American Political Science Association for best book on the
U.S. presidency in 2003 and 2022, as well as the 2022 Louis Brownlow Prize from the
National Academy of Public Administration. His books include By Executive Order,
Managing the President’s Program, The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential
Power after Watergate, and, as coeditor, a volume on the Office of Management and
Budget and a series assessing recent presidencies. Prior to his academic career, he
worked in state and local politics in Massachusetts.
