Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy

JAMES W. RIDDLESPERGER, JR., is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the University of Missouri at Columbia.DONALD W. JACKSON is the Herman Brown Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University and holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison./e He is the author of Even the Children of Strangers: Equality Under the U.S. Constitution (1992).

This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States. Covering a broad time period, the work takes a social scientific approach to the understanding of civil rights, utilizing both quantitative and archival research. The editors attempt to place and analyze civil rights in context-as a policy arena representative of broader presidential leadership concerns-and look at the development of civil rights policy since Brown v. Board of Education from the perspectives of (1) the public, (2) government institutions, and (3) particular policy arenas.

This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States.

Introductory Comments by James W. Riddlesperger, Jr., and Donald W. JacksonThe Public, the President, and Civil RightsPresidents, Public Opinion, and Civil Rights: An Agenda-Setting Perspective by Jeffrey E. CohenPresidential Rhetoric in Civil Rights Policymaking, 1953-1992 by Steven A. Shull and Albert C. RingelsteinMoving with the Grain of History: An Examination of Presidential Action in the Civil Rights Domain from 1892 to 1968 by Ronald E. BrownInstitutions, the President, and Civil RightsPresidential Leadership Style and Civil Rights Legislation: The Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by James D. King and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.Affirmative Action and Business Deregulation: On the Reagan Administration's Failure to Revise Executive Order No. 11246 by Robert R. DetlefsenA Transformed Triangle: Court, Congress and Presidency in Civil Rights by Stephen L. WasbyPolicy Arenas, the President, and Civil RightsPresidential Decision-Making in Two Desegregation Crises: Little Rock Central High School and the University of Mississippi by Mark SternJohn F. Kennedy and the Politics of Civil Rights by Donald W. Jackson and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.Decentralizing Fair Housing Enforcement During the Reagan Presidency by Charles M. Lamb and Jim TwomblyModeling Presidential Influence in the Civil Rights Policymaking Process by Steven A. Shull and Dennis W. GleiberBibliographyIndex