Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy. By Constantine J. Spiliotes. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 212. $39.95

Robert Fleck ()

The Journal of Economic History, 2002, vol. 62, issue 3, 909-910

Abstract: Constantine J. Spiliotes makes a substantial new contribution to the literature on presidential decision making. Spiliotes seeks to bring together two largely separate literatures: presidential studies and rational choice theory. This is a formidable task: Economists and rational-choice political scientists typically view traditional presidential studies as excessively anecdotal for the purpose of establishing generally applicable theories, and presidential-studies scholars typically view rational-choice models as excessively abstract and parsimonious for the purpose of understanding the complexities of the presidency.

Date: 2002
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