Research assignment

Research Paper Assignment Sheet Assignment In 6-8 pages develop an argument about the key factors determining successful presidential leadership in the modern era (FDR forward). Your argument should be deeply rooted in the scholarly literature on the presidency. Develop your argument in more detail by exploring two cases where a president attempted to provide leadership in some way. The cases that you select should be narrow (e.g. FDR and the passage of the Social Security Act rather than FDR and the New Deal). You only have a few short pages to discuss each case and it is better to be an inch wide and a mile deep than a mile wide and an inch deep. I think that the easiest way to do this would be to choose a policy or action widely viewed as a historical success and another that is widely viewed as a historical failure (e.g. Truman’s Marshall Plan and Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia). However, you do not need to follow this mold. You could also compare two successes or two failures. In the development of your mini-case studies, you should draw heavily from the Green Library’s large collection of newspapers (available online). For each case, you should be citing from The New York Times and other online newspaper databases from the week surrounding the event. This will help give your cases much more depth. I also encourage you to find other supplemental sources like presidential biographies, journal articles, academic books, primary documents, and oral histories about the actual event to bolster your arguments. Due Date and Time • October 23, 2022 General Paper Requirements • 6-8 pages (excluding title page and references), double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, and 1” margins. • No fewer than 7 references. • Students will use the Chicago Manual of Style’s “author-date” system for their in- text citations and references. o Some hypothetical examples of in-text citations: ▪ Author’s name in-text (paraphrased or direct quote) • Jones (2011, 14) shows that “the adoption of Twitter occurs more rapidly during election years.” ▪ Author’s name not in-text (paraphrased or direct quote) • The author shows that “the adoption of Twitter occurs more rapidly during election years” (Jones 2011, 14). ▪ String of authors

• Research on Twitter adoption shows that MCs use the tool more aggressively during election years (Barnaby 2010; Jones 2011; Kelley and Gregg 2011; Peterson et al. 2011). o Some hypothetical examples of references: ▪ Book • Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. ▪ Journal article • Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235. ▪ Newspaper article • Manjoo, Farhad. 2017. “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera.” New York Times, March 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap- makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the- camera.html. Suggested Organization • Introduction (~1 page) • Determinants of Successful Presidential Leadership (~1 page) • Case 1 (w/ focus on how the events highlight the determinants you identify; ~2 pages) • Case 2 (w/ focus on how the events highlight the determinants you identify; ~2 pages) • Conclusion (~1 page) • References Useful Resources Related to the Assignment • Green Library’s online newspaper databases • Green Library’s catalog of books • Miller Center’s oral history projects • Presidential Libraries • Google Scholar key word searches to identify books and journal articles Academic Integrity

quotation or paraphrase – you need to cite and reference them properly (please see the section on in-text parenthetical citations in the research paper’s assignment sheet for more details). All direct quotations must be placed in quotation marks.