Presidential Studies Quarterly

Focused on the most powerful political figure in the world—the President of the United States—Presidential Studies Quarterly (PSQ) is an indispensable resource for understanding the US presidency and executive politics around the world. 

An indispensable resource for understanding the U.S. president, Presidential Studies Quarterlypresents cutting-edge research into all aspects of the American presidency and executive politics and policymaking more broadly. Through a combination of original research articles and notes, its Historical and Contemporary Presidency features, and topical book reviews, PSQ brings together the best scholarship on executive politics from across academic disciplines and fosters research translation to a general audience interested in better understanding presidential politics.  The journal is published by Wiley Online Library.  

Timely Research

In addition to fostering and promoting the latest scholarly research and thinking about all aspects of the presidency and executive politics, PSQ’s Contemporary Presidency feature brings fresh empirical insight to bear on questions of immediate import, while its Historical Presidency feature helps scholars and policymakers alike better contextualize and understand presidential politics by understanding its past. 

Blind Reviewed Articles

PSQ evaluates submitted research by a double-blind peer review process that ensures readers receive only the highest-quality, objective scholarship, free from partisan editing or selection. The editorial board members include some of the finest scholars and professionals in the discipline.

Editor

Douglas L. Kriner, Cornell University

Contemporary Presidency Feature Editor

Julia R. Azari, Marquette University

Historical Presidency Feature Editor

Richard J. Ellis, Willamette University

BOOK REVIEW EDITORS 

Timothy Hemmis, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Nancy Kassop, SUNY New Paltz

Wendy Weinhold, Coastal Carolina University

Editorial Board

Peri E. Arnold, University of Notre Dame

Vanessa Beasley, University of Georgia

Jon Bond, Texas A&M University

Douglas Brinkley, Rice University

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University

Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University

Matthew Dickinson, Middlebury College

Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University

Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas, Austin

William Howell, University of Chicago

Robert Ivie, Indiana University

Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota

Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania

Karen Hult, Virginia Tech University

Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin

Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego

Thomas J. Knock, Southern Methodist University

Douglas Kriner, Boston University

Martha Kumar, Towson State University

David E. Lewis, Vanderbuilt University

Paul Light, New York University

Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama

James M. McPherson, Princeton University

Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University

Kenneth J. Meier, American University

Bruce Miroff, SUNY, Albany

Terry Moe, Stanford University

Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia

Lyn K. Ragsdale, Rice University

Stanley A. Renshon, City University New York

Donald L. Robinson, Smith College

Bert Rockman, Purdue University

Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College

Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University

Stephen Skowronek, Yale University

Mary Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University

Terry Sullivan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Charles Walcott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Wayne, Georgetown University

Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara

B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University

David Zarefsky, Northwestern University