Pitiful Giants

Daniel P. Franklin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, USA.

• 1. Leaving Presidents and their Relations with Congress 2. Leaving Presidents and the Administrative State 3. Lame Duck Presidents and Foreign Policy 4. Leaving Presidents and Partisan Politics 5. The Leaving President and the Mechanics of Transition Conclusion: The Public Good and the Limits of the Leaving President

"Franklin (Georgia State Univ.) examines the trials faced and opportunities afforded to lame duck presidents, men who 'begin to hemorrhage influence from the moment they are reelected.' ... Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and graduate collections." (R. P. Seyb, Choice, Vol. 53 (7), March, 2016)