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Get the most up-to-date coverage and analysis of the presidency. Never losing sight of the foundations of the office, bestselling authors Joseph A. Pika, John Anthony Maltese, and Andrew Rudalevige maintain a balance between historical context and contemporary scholarship on the executive branch, providing a solid foundation for any presidency course. This Revised Tenth Edition of The Politics of the Presidency will offer you a thorough analysis of the change and continuity following the November 2020 presidential election and Biden administration.

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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.

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