Mark J Rozell
Biographic Data
| ID | 257456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark J Rozell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozell |
| SIGNATURE | ROZELL M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Congressional Investigations and Presidential Power – An Assessment of Executive Privilege During Donald Trump’s First Term
Opposing Congress: Alternative Ways to Benefit from Executive Privilege Protections
In the U.S. constitutional system, Congress and the executive branch balance each other in exercising power from appointments to vetoes. That balance is never perfect nor is it consistent, with both Congress and the president, at times, trying to dominate. At no time is this truer than when Congress seeks executive branch information to conduct investigations. Presidents occasionally employ executive privilege to shield information from Congress …
African American Statewide Candidates in the New South
African American candidates for statewide office in the United States face unique challenges given the nation’s complicated racial dynamics. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the United States had elected only one African American as governor in its history—L. Douglas Wilder, a grandson of slaves who achieved this historic goal in 1989 in Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy. Numerous media accounts at the time declared a major br…
The Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional Government
A ngie M axwell and T odd S hields . The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
Among the geographic regions of the United States, the South, usually defined as the eleven states of the old Confederacy, is the most widely studied and analyzed, the topic of many postsecondary courses in fields as diverse as history, political science, cultural studies, American studies, and literature, among others. The South remains highly distinctive in politics and culture despite predictions that demographic and cultural changes in the re…
Response to David A. Bateman, Ira Katznelson, and John S. Lapinski’s Review of The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
This encyclopedia brings together leading scholars to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on politics and religion ever produced. Editors in Chief Paul A. Djupe, Mark J. Rozell, and Ted G. Jelen—joined by an editorial board of associate editors (Gizem Arikan, Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Taylor Boas, Steven Kettell, Amy Erica Smith, and Güneş Murat Tezcür)—have assembled over 100 peer-reviewed entries. In this extensive resource, reade…
Federalism in a Time of Plague: How Federal Systems Cope With Pandemic
This article compares and contrasts the responses of Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States to the COVID-19 outbreak and spread. The pandemic has posed special challenges to these federal systems. Although federal systems typically have many advantages—they can adapt policies to local conditions, for example, and experiment with different solutions to problems—pandemics and people cross regional borders, and controlling contagion requi…
Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability
Mark Rozell's Executive Privilege-called "the definitive contemporary work on the subject" by the Journal of Politics-is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power. Picking up where the third edition left off-with President Barack Obama's claim to begin a new era of transparency-this revised and updated fourth edition, with assistance from M…
The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics
Analyzing and explaining the transformation of U.S. politics since the explosive events of 1968 requires particular attention to the South—the states of the former Confederacy. Indeed, a strong case can be made that the South has had the greatest impact on the transformation of U.S politics and government. Since 1968 we have seen the demise of the “sold (Democratic) South” and the rise of the Republican-dominated South, the rise of the largely so…
Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford
Because of his unlikely rise to the presidency and short time in office, Gerald R. Ford has largely been treated as a historical footnote by scholars. At most, some at least have elevated him to the status of a transitional president whose tenure laid the groundwork for more historically significant events that happened later. There has long been a need for a corrective to this dismissal of the importance of the Ford presidency. Scott Kaufman’s b…
Catholics and US Politics After the 2016 Elections
The Law: The Unitary Executive Theory and President Donald J. Trump
The unitary executive theory first went mainstream during the George W. Bush administration as the president's justification for exercising broad executive powers. Barack Obama did not explicitly embrace the unitary executive theory, but he followed in Bush's footsteps by expanding and augmenting presidential power in new and questionable ways. President Donald J. Trump's campaign rhetoric, coupled with an early, controversial executive order on …
African Americans and Contemporary Southern Politics
This article describes and analyzes the evolution of African American political participation in the states of the former Confederacy since the time of V.O. Key’s classic study of southern politics (1949). Expanded voting and electoral success for African Americans in the south have dramatically transformed the politics of the region and portenddeeper and longer-lasting change in the future, unless the Republican Party can begin to appeal to more…
The Law: White House Equities: The New Executive Privilege
Presidential administrations have devised numerous legal rationales, such as executive privilege, for concealing information. A relatively new and related rationale is “White House equities.” Although not statutorily defined, White House counsels and other executive officials have interpreted White House equities to encompass all agency communications either to the White House or prepared for communication with the White House. Records classified…
The Libertarian Right and the Religious Right
A key dynamic in American conservatism is the relationship between conservatives adhering to broadly libertarian views and those whose conservatism is more closely tied to religious traditionalism, a difference we hypothesize is rooted in psychological predispositions of the sort considered by Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory. To better understand the structure of cooperation and competition between these groups, we construct an anatomy of the Am…
The Origins and Development of Executive Branch Czars
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The Law: President O bama's Signing Statements and the Expansion of Executive Power
Barack O bama campaigned for president of the U nited S tates on a promise of fidelity to the C onstitution and stated that he would not issue any signing statements to revise legislative intent. His vision of the presidency stood in marked contrast to President G eorge W . B ush's actions and seemed to suggest a reversal of the trend toward increased executive powers. We will analyze how and why President O bama has largely continued the unilate…
The Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics
The unique political history of the Southern United States is rooted in the fact that it is the only region to have ever taken up arms against the national government. While the resources of the North prevailed after the four bloody years of the Civil War, the consequences of the practice of slavery and the bitter loss experienced by the South continue to shape southern politics a century and a half later. The twenty-three articles included in th…
Obama's Executive Branch Czars: The Constitutional Controversy and a Legislative Solution
The increasingly common practice of presidential appointment of so-called executive branch czars has become especially contentious in the Obama era. Much of that controversy unfortunately is highly partisan-oriented and misses the core constitutional issues at stake. In this article, we describe and analyze the Obama-era executive branch czars controversy from a constitutional analysis framework. In so doing, we offer a working definition of exec…
George W. Bush, Religion, and Foreign Policy: Personal, Global, and Domestic Contexts
In public discourse on international affairs, George W. Bush often utilized religious imagery in his rhetoric. But the role of religion in shaping foreign policy during the Bush administration was dynamic, contentious, and varied. Bush experienced a religious transformation in the 1980s, and his faith convictions played an important role in garnering support of evangelicals during campaigns, and to a lesser extent in shaping his policy positions.…
The Law: Prerogative Power and Executive Branch Czars: President Obama's Signing Statement
In his April 15, 2011, signing statement President Barack Obama implied that, as president, he may suspend laws, or portions of laws, and that he is not controlled by statutory language that interferes with his ability to receive advice from White House aides or other executive branch officials. This article analyzes the claim that presidents have the prerogative to wall themselves and their aides off from statutory direction and controls, and co…
An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Betty Glad
Presidential Direct Action and Policy Continuity: The Case of U.S. International Population Policy
Objectives. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the modern practice of unilateral presidential policy making in the area of U.S. international population policy. The analysis focuses on the implications of this practice in a constitutional system intended to limit and constrain direct presidential action in policy making. Methods. The authors conduct their analysis using a variety of qualitative sources, including leading studies…
Religion, Race, and the American Presidency
Journal Article Religion, Race, and the American Presidency Get access Religion, Race, and the American Presidency. Edited by Gaston Espinosa. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 345pp. $39.95. Mark J. Rozell Mark J. Rozell George Mason UniversityArlington, Virginia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 51, Issue 3, Summer 2009, Pages 544–545, https://doi.o…
Federalism in a Time of Plague: How Federal Systems Cope With Pandemic
This article compares and contrasts the responses of Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States to the COVID-19 outbreak and spread. The pandemic has posed special challenges to these federal systems. Although federal systems typically have many advantages—they can adapt policies to local conditions, for example, and experiment with different solutions to problems—pandemics and people cross regional borders, and controlling contagion requi…
Second Coming: The Strategies of the New Christian Right
MARK J. ROZELL is research associate professor at the White Burkett Miller Center at the University of Virginia. CLYDE WILCOX is associate professor of government at Georgetown University. They are the co-authors of Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics and the co-editors of God at the Grass Roots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Elections
Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right
Journal Article Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right Get access Mary E. Bendyna, RSM, Mary E. Bendyna, RSM Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John C. Green, John C. Green University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Rozell, Mark J. Rozell * The Catholic University of America * Direc…
Social Movements and Party Politics: The Case of the Christian Right
This paper explores the uneasy relationship between social movements and major political parties by considering the case of the Christian Right and the Republican Party in the 1994 elections. We look at four states where the movement was active in party politics and where Republican electoral fortunes varied from failure to success. We found that the degree of intraparty division generated by the Christian Right seemed to hurt Republicans at the …
The Law: The Unitary Executive Theory and President Donald J. Trump
The unitary executive theory first went mainstream during the George W. Bush administration as the president's justification for exercising broad executive powers. Barack Obama did not explicitly embrace the unitary executive theory, but he followed in Bush's footsteps by expanding and augmenting presidential power in new and questionable ways. President Donald J. Trump's campaign rhetoric, coupled with an early, controversial executive order on …
The Law: President O bama's Signing Statements and the Expansion of Executive Power
Barack O bama campaigned for president of the U nited S tates on a promise of fidelity to the C onstitution and stated that he would not issue any signing statements to revise legislative intent. His vision of the presidency stood in marked contrast to President G eorge W . B ush's actions and seemed to suggest a reversal of the trend toward increased executive powers. We will analyze how and why President O bama has largely continued the unilate…
Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power
Helping Women Run and Win: Feminist Groups, Candidate Recruitment and Training
This essay examines the candidate recruitment and training programs of four leading women's organizations. Author interviews with political directors, as well as an examination of the groups' literature, provide the insiders' accounts of their electoral activities and perceptions of the importance of future such endeavors by women's groups. The essay assesses the value of these electoral activities and potential for real political impact. Key Wor…
The “Congressionalization” of state legislative races
This paper examines the phenomenon of the “Congressionalization” of state legislative races. That is, as state legislative campaigns become more expensive, use more mass media, polling, and professional political consulting, these races are looking more and more like Congressional campaigns. Although others have pointed toward a “Congressionalization” trend, there is little concrete support to prove such a trend. We provide a detailed case study …
Catholics and the Christian Right: A View from Four States
Christian Right Organizations in the 1990s have tried to avoid the pitfalls for the religious particularism that undermined the earlier efforts of such groups as Moral Majority to build long lasting political coalitions. For many Christian Right leaders, conservative Catholics appear to be a particularly appealing group to reach for membership recruitment and political coalition-building. Yet such leading groups as the Christian Coalition have la…
Obama's Executive Branch Czars: The Constitutional Controversy and a Legislative Solution
The increasingly common practice of presidential appointment of so-called executive branch czars has become especially contentious in the Obama era. Much of that controversy unfortunately is highly partisan-oriented and misses the core constitutional issues at stake. In this article, we describe and analyze the Obama-era executive branch czars controversy from a constitutional analysis framework. In so doing, we offer a working definition of exec…
George W. Bush, Religion, and Foreign Policy: Personal, Global, and Domestic Contexts
In public discourse on international affairs, George W. Bush often utilized religious imagery in his rhetoric. But the role of religion in shaping foreign policy during the Bush administration was dynamic, contentious, and varied. Bush experienced a religious transformation in the 1980s, and his faith convictions played an important role in garnering support of evangelicals during campaigns, and to a lesser extent in shaping his policy positions.…
The Law: Executive Privilege: Definition and Standards of Application
Executive privilege is the right of the president and high‐level executive branch officials to withhold information from those with compulsory power—Congress and the courts (and, therefore, ultimately the public). Because it is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution and also due to the occasional abuses of that power, executive privilege is controversial. Although few today question the constitutionality of executive privilege, there is considerab…
When Women Lose: A Study of Media Coverage of Two Gubernatorial Campaigns
This paper examines the press coverage of the 1993 Virginia and 1996 West Virginia gubernatorial elections. In both elections, the Democratic Party nominated female candidates, a first in both states. The research seeks to understand if the press was biased against the women candidates and whether or not that bias can be attributed to their gender. While the data collected from newspapers in both states show that the press was negative, the evide…
When women lose: A study of media coverage of two gubernatorial campaigns
The Limits of White House Image Control
Journal Article The Limits of White House Image Control Get access Mark J. Rozell Mark J. Rozell MARK J. ROZELL is associate professor of political science at Mary Washington College. He is the author of The Press and the Ford Presidency and The Press and the Carter Presidency. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 108, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 453–480, https://doi.org/10.230…
Opposing Congress: Alternative Ways to Benefit from Executive Privilege Protections
In the U.S. constitutional system, Congress and the executive branch balance each other in exercising power from appointments to vetoes. That balance is never perfect nor is it consistent, with both Congress and the president, at times, trying to dominate. At no time is this truer than when Congress seeks executive branch information to conduct investigations. Presidents occasionally employ executive privilege to shield information from Congress …
The Law: White House Equities: The New Executive Privilege
Presidential administrations have devised numerous legal rationales, such as executive privilege, for concealing information. A relatively new and related rationale is “White House equities.” Although not statutorily defined, White House counsels and other executive officials have interpreted White House equities to encompass all agency communications either to the White House or prepared for communication with the White House. Records classified…
The Law: Prerogative Power and Executive Branch Czars: President Obama's Signing Statement
In his April 15, 2011, signing statement President Barack Obama implied that, as president, he may suspend laws, or portions of laws, and that he is not controlled by statutory language that interferes with his ability to receive advice from White House aides or other executive branch officials. This article analyzes the claim that presidents have the prerogative to wall themselves and their aides off from statutory direction and controls, and co…
The Contemporary Presidency Executive Privilege and the U.S. Attorneys Firings
Political observers have debated whether George W. Bush's exercises of secrecy have shielded him from accountability for many of his administration's actions. In particular, the president's use of executive privilege to conceal information about the U.S. attorneys firings set off a firestorm of protest, especially among members of Congress who sought documents and testimony from White House aides. This essay describes and analyzes the president's…
Helping women run and win: Feminist groups, candidate recruitment and training
A GOP Gender Gap: Motivations, Policy, and Candidate Choice
We compare male and female delegates to the Virginia GOP nominating conventions in 1993 and 1994. We find that gender differences in motivations, policy preferences, and candidate choice are subtle and that some exist for all GOP activists while others exist in only the Christian Right or moderate faction
Media and Momentum: The New Hampshire Primary and Nomination Politics. Gary R. Orren , Nelson W. Polsby
President Carter and the Press: Perspectives from White House Communications Advisers
In 1976 Jimmy seemed to many voters to be the right man at the right time. To an electorate made cynical by the experiences of Vietnam and Watergate, his outsider candidacy promised to make government trustworthy again. A recent comprehensive study of Carter's press relations reveals that many journalists also saw in the possibility for a new era in American politics.1 In the immediate post-Vietnam, post-Watergate years, journalists had framed a …
The Limits of White House Image Control
Journal Article The Limits of White House Image Control Get access Mark J. Rozell Mark J. Rozell MARK J. ROZELL is associate professor of political science at Mary Washington College. He is the author of The Press and the Ford Presidency and The Press and the Carter Presidency. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 108, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 453–480, https://doi.org/10.230…
The Christian Right in the Old Dominion: Resurgent Republicans or Holy War
In early 1994, Virginia Senator Chuck Robb appeared extremely vulnerable. Once touted as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, Robb spent much of his first term defending himself against charges that he had attended parties where drugs were used, had engaged in extramarital affairs, and had known that his aides had possessed illegally taped cellular telephone conversations of long-time rival Governor Douglas Wilder. Robb's difficulties b…
Second Coming: The Strategies of the New Christian Right
MARK J. ROZELL is research associate professor at the White Burkett Miller Center at the University of Virginia. CLYDE WILCOX is associate professor of government at Georgetown University. They are the co-authors of Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics and the co-editors of God at the Grass Roots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Elections
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Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics
God at the Grass Roots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Elections
Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics
God at the Grassroots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Election
Chapter 1 The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections: An Overview Chapter 2 Florida: Running Globally and Winning Locally Chapter 3 Georgia: The Christian Right and Grass Roots Power Chapter 4 Texas: The Emergence of the Christian Right Chapter 5 Oklahoma: The Christian Right and Republican Realignment Chapter 6 Virginia: God, Guns, and Oliver North Chapter 7 South Carolina: The Christian Right Wins One Chapter 8 Michigan: Veering to the Right Ch…
A GOP Gender Gap: Motivations, Policy, and Candidate Choice
We compare male and female delegates to the Virginia GOP nominating conventions in 1993 and 1994. We find that gender differences in motivations, policy preferences, and candidate choice are subtle and that some exist for all GOP activists while others exist in only the Christian Right or moderate faction
A GOP gender gap? Motivations, policy, and candidate choice
Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics
Journal Article Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics, by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996,285 pp. $32.95 Get access H. Wesley Perkins H. Wesley Perkins Hobart and William Smith Colleges Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 95–96, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711971 Published: …
The Clinton Scandal in Retrospect
On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. The first article, passed by a vote of 228-206, charged that the president had given perjurious, false and misleading testimony to a federal grand jury (Cong. Rec. 1998, H12040). The second article, passed by a vote of 221-212, charged that the president had committed obstruction of justice in the sexual harassment lawsuit filed…
Something to Hide: Clinton's Misuse of Executive Privilege
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The Law: Executive Privilege: Definition and Standards of Application
Executive privilege is the right of the president and high‐level executive branch officials to withhold information from those with compulsory power—Congress and the courts (and, therefore, ultimately the public). Because it is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution and also due to the occasional abuses of that power, executive privilege is controversial. Although few today question the constitutionality of executive privilege, there is considerab…
When Women Lose: A Study of Media Coverage of Two Gubernatorial Campaigns
This paper examines the press coverage of the 1993 Virginia and 1996 West Virginia gubernatorial elections. In both elections, the Democratic Party nominated female candidates, a first in both states. The research seeks to understand if the press was biased against the women candidates and whether or not that bias can be attributed to their gender. While the data collected from newspapers in both states show that the press was negative, the evide…
When women lose: A study of media coverage of two gubernatorial campaigns
Helping Women Run and Win: Feminist Groups, Candidate Recruitment and Training
This essay examines the candidate recruitment and training programs of four leading women's organizations. Author interviews with political directors, as well as an examination of the groups' literature, provide the insiders' accounts of their electoral activities and perceptions of the importance of future such endeavors by women's groups. The essay assesses the value of these electoral activities and potential for real political impact. Key Wor…
Helping women run and win: Feminist groups, candidate recruitment and training
The Media and American Institutions: Introduction
Catholics and the Christian Right: A View from Four States
Christian Right Organizations in the 1990s have tried to avoid the pitfalls for the religious particularism that undermined the earlier efforts of such groups as Moral Majority to build long lasting political coalitions. For many Christian Right leaders, conservative Catholics appear to be a particularly appealing group to reach for membership recruitment and political coalition-building. Yet such leading groups as the Christian Coalition have la…
Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections
Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right
Journal Article Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right Get access Mary E. Bendyna, RSM, Mary E. Bendyna, RSM Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John C. Green, John C. Green University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Rozell, Mark J. Rozell * The Catholic University of America * Direc…
Social Movements and Party Politics: The Case of the Christian Right
This paper explores the uneasy relationship between social movements and major political parties by considering the case of the Christian Right and the Republican Party in the 1994 elections. We look at four states where the movement was active in party politics and where Republican electoral fortunes varied from failure to success. We found that the degree of intraparty division generated by the Christian Right seemed to hurt Republicans at the …
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