Judging Bush / edited by Robert Maranto, Tom Lansford, and Jeremy Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: A Call for Modesty / Robert Maranto -- Pt. 1. Introduction: President Bush in Comparative Perspective -- 1. Evaluating Presidents / Neil Reedy and Jeremy Johnson -- 2. Bush's Brain (No, Not Karl Rove): How Bush's Psyche Shaped His Decision Making / Robert Maranto and Richard E. Redding -- 3. The Cheneyization of the Bush Administration: Cheney Captures the Transition / Shirley Anne Warshaw -- 4. President Bush as Chief Executive / James P. Pfiffner -- Pt. 2. Institutions and the Policy Regime -- 5. Reactionary Ideologues and Uneasy Partisans: Bush and Realignment / Lara M. Brown -- 6. Diminishing Returns: George W. Bush and Congress, 2001-2008 / Andrew Rudalevige -- 7. Not Always According to Plan: Theory and Practice in the Bush White House / Karen M. Hult, Charles E. Walcott and David B. Cohen -- 8. A Legal Revolution? The Bush Administration's Effect on the Judiciary and Civil Justice Reform / Lori A. Johnson and Michael P. Moreland -- Pt. 3. Domestic Policies -- 9. George W. Bush's Education Legacy: The Two Faces of No Child Left Behind / Frederick M. Hess and Patrick J. McGuinn -- 10. The Politics of Economic Policy in a Polarized Era: The Case of George W. Bush / Jeffrey E. Cohen and Costas Panagopoulos -- 11. Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security / Anne M. Khademian -- Pt. 4. Crusade: The Bush Foreign Policies -- 12. Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? / Robert G. Kaufman -- 13. Forging an American Empire / Lawrence J. Korb and Laura Conley -- 14. Fighting Two Wars / Tom Lansford and Jack Covarrubias -- Pt. 5. Judging George W. Bush -- 15. Between Journalism and History: Evaluating George W. Bush's Presidency / William A. Galston -- Afterword: Why Judging George W. Bush Is Never as Easy as It Seems / John J. Diiulio, Jr.