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  • Shaping the 44th Presidency

    Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

    Shaping the 44th Presidency
    Kathryn Tenpas and Charles O. Jones examine what the 44th president will inherit, a diminished presidency, in a system that appears now to be pitted against itself.

  • The Veto-Free Presidency: George W. Bush (2001-Present)

    Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

    The Veto-Free Presidency: George W. Bush (2001-Present)
    In this Issues in Governance Studies paper, Kathryn Tenpas examines the veto record of President George W. Bush.

  • West Wing Shuffle

    Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

    Opinion by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas; The Washington Post (4/2/06)

  • President Bush's 2004 Campaign Travel

    Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

    Paper by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas (6/29/04)

  • Permanent Campaign Brushes Aside Tradition

    Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT

    Opinion by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Anthony Corrado, The Arizona Daily Star (3/30/04)

  • Need Facts to Promote Faith-based Initiatives

    Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT

    The House of Representatives passed the "Charitable Giving Act of 2003" with a "Sense of Congress" statement claiming that "faith-based organizations are often more successful in dealing with difficult societal problems than government and non-sectarian organizations." However, argues Kathryn Tenpas, Congress must establish a centralized data collection system that requires agencies to report the number of faith-based and community organizations receiving money, how much they receive, what services they perform and how they stack up after an independent evaluation, writes

  • Words vs. Deeds: President George W. Bush and polling

    Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

    Public records available from the Federal Election Commission, documents from presidential libraries, and interviews with key players calls into question the Bush administration's purported ""anti-polling"" ethos and shows an administration closely in

  • Campaigning to Govern: Presidents Seeking Reelection

    Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

    Article by Kathryn Tenpas in Political Science and Politics (April, 2003)

  • The Contemporary Presidency: The Bush White House: First Appraisals

    Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT

    Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Stephen Hess examine President George W. Bush's first crack at assembling his White House and assesses its early performance as well as the staff and structural changes made in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The authors compare his staff to the initial staffs of his three immediate predecessors—Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan.

  • Explaining Increasing Turnover Rates among Presidential Advisers, 1929-1997

    Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT

    Article by Matthew J. Dickinson, Associate professor, Middlebury College, and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Guest Scholar, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in The Journal of Politics, May 2002

  • Bush's 'A Team': Just Like Clinton's, But More So

    Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

    Opinion by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Guest Scholar, and Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Washington Post, January 27, 2002