James P. Pfiffner

Book Chapters

How Donald Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election,” in James Thurber, ed. Rivals For Power, 7th edition, (Roman and Littlefield, 2022).

OMB, the Presidency, and the Federal Budget,” in Executive Policymaking edited by Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige (Brookings 2020), pp. 11-40.

The Lies of Donald Trump: A Taxonomy” in The Trump Presidency and Executive Power, edited by Charles Lamb (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2019).

President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq: Presidential Leadership and Thwarted Goals,” in James McCormick, ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, 6th ed. (Roman &    Littlefield, 2017), pp. 361-380.

“Unilateral Presidential Authority: Uses and Abuses,” in Rivals for Power, edited by Jordan Tama and James Thurber (Roman and Littlefield, 2017), pp. 75-97.

“Presidents Bush, Obama and the Surveillance of Americans,” In The Quest for Leadership: Essays in Honor of Thomas E. Cronin.  Michael Genovese, ed. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015), pp. 131-148.

“The Office of Presidential Personnel,” White House Transition Project Report, (2016), pp. 1-30.

“The Efficacy of Coercive Interrogation,” in Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, editors James P. Pfiffner and Tracy Lightcap, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 127-157.

“U.S. Torture Policy and Command Responsibility,” in Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, editors James P. Pfiffner and Tracy Lightcap, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 103-125.

“Organizing the 21st Century White House,” in James Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power, 5th ed. (Lanham, MD: Roman Littlefield, 2013), pp. 63-86.

“Organizing the Obama White House” From James Thurber, ed., Obama in Office: The First Two Years (Paradigm Publishers, 2011) Chapter 5, pp. 75-88.

“The Decision to Go to War with Iraq,” in Richard J. Stillman, Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010), pp. 195-209 (also in 8th and 9th editions).

“George W. Bush as Chief Executive,” in Andrew Wroe and Jon Herbert, Assessing the Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms? (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 29-43.

“President Bush as Chief Executive,” in Robert Maranto, et al., Judging Bush (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), pp. 58-74.

“Presidential Transitions,” in The Oxford Handbook of The American Presidency, edited by George C. Edwards and Willaim G. Howell (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), pp. 85-107.

“Partisan Polarization, Politics, and the Presidency: Structural Sources of Conflict,” in James A. Thurber, ed. Rivals For Power: Presidential Congressional Relations (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2009), pp. 37-60 (revised for 4th edition)

“Decision Making, Intelligence, and the Iraq War,” in James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian, eds. Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives (UK: Manchester University Press, 2008); U.S. edition: Texas A&M University Press, 2008, pp. 213-232.

“Introduction: Policy-Making and Intelligence on Iraq,” with Mark Phythian, In James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian, eds. Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives (UK: Manchester University Press, 2008); . U.S. edition: Texas A&M University Press, 2008, pp. 1-16.

“The Ethics of Interrogation: Torture and Public Management,” in Derek S. Reveron and Judith Hicks Stiehm, eds. Inside Defense: Understanding the U.S. Military ( NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 161-172

“Presidential Leadership and Advice about Going to War,” in Terry L. Price and J. Thomas Wren, eds., The Values of Presidential Leadership (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 135-157.

“Intelligence and Decision Making Before the War with Iraq,” in George C. Edwards and Desmond King, eds., The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 213-242.

“Assessing the Bush Presidency,” in Gary L. Gregg and Mark J. Rozell, eds. Considering the Bush Presidency (NY: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 1-20.

“George W. Bush: Policy, Politics, and Personality,” in George C. Edwards III and Philip John Davies, eds., New Challenges for the American Presidency (NY: Pearson/Longman, 2004), pp.161-181.

“National Security Policymaking and the Bush War Cabinet,” in Richard Conley, ed. Transforming the American Polity: The Presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terrorism (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004).

“Traditional Public Administration versus The New Public Management: Accountability versus Efficiency”  Festschrift for Professor Klaus Konig of Speyer, Germany. In Institutionenwandel in Regierung und Verwaltung: Festschrift fur Klaus Konig, Arthur Benz, HHeinrich Siedentopf, and Karl-Peter Sommermann, eds. (Berlin,Germany: Duncker & Humblot, 2004), pp. 443-454.

“Presidential Appointments: Recruiting Executive Branch Leaders” in Innocent Until Nominated: the Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process, edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Washington: Brookings, 2001), pp. 50-80.

“Presidents in Crisis: Watergate, Iran-Contra, and President Clinton’s Impeachment” in Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, ed David Abshire (Wesport, CT: Praeger, 2001), pp. 284-300.

“President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the 104th Congress” in On Parties: Essays Honoring Ausgin Ranney, edited by Nelson W. Polsby, and Raymond E. Wolfinger. Institute of Governmental Studies Press, Univeristy of California, Berkeley, 1999, pp. 135-168.

“Presidential Constraints and Transitions.” in Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Ed. Steven A. Shull. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp, 1999). pp. 19-37.

“The American Tradition of Administrative Reform,” in The White House and the Blue House: Government Reform in the United States and Korea eds., Yong Hyo Cho and H. George Frederickson (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998).

“President Clinton and the 103rd Congress: Winning Battles and Losing Wars,” in Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, edited by James Thurber (Washington: CQ Press, 1996), pp. 170-190.

“Presidential Policy-Making and the Gulf War” in The Presidency and the Persian Gulf War, edited by Marcia Lynn Whicker, James P. Pfiffner, and Raymond A. Moore. Praeger Publishers, Westport Conneticut, 1993, pp. 3-23.

“OMB: Professionalism, Politicization, and the Presidency,” in Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems, edited by Colin Campbell and Margaret J. Wyszomirski (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), pp. 195-218.