George C. Edwards III

George C. Edwards III is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies Emeritus at Texas A&M University and distinguished fellow at the University of Oxford. He is a scholar of American politics, particularly of the American presidency, authoring or editing 29 books and approximately 100 articles and essays.

He taught at Tulane University from 1973 to 1978 before moving to Texas A&M University in 1978. He was the founder and from 1991 to 2001 the director of The Center for Presidential Studies. From 1998 until 2022 he was editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly. As of December 2025, he is University Distinguished Professor and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies emeritus at Texas A&M University^[1] and Distinguished Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College at Oxford.

• Prisoners of Their Premises: How Unexamined Assumptions Lead to War and Other Policy Debacles (Chicago, 2022).^[2][3]
• Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership (Chicago, 2021).
• Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership (Princeton, 2016).
• Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency (Princeton, 2012).
• Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America Cambridge, 2024).
• The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership (Princeton, 2009).
• The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency (Oxford, 2009), co-editor.
• Governing by Campaigning: The Politics of the Bush Presidency, 2nd ed. (Longman, 2007).
• On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit (Yale, 2003).
• Researching the Presidency (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
• Presidential Approval (Johns Hopkins, 1990).
• At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress (Yale, 1989).^[4]
• Implementing Public Policy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1980).

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