Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy

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 contextas a policy arena representative of broader presidential leadership concernsand 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.