The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game

Felzenberg begins by recounting the many problems with rankings of presidents, from "ideological predilections," to the "failure to set forth precise criteria" for evaluating presidents, to "a tendency of some jurors to reflect the findings of past surveys" (p. ix), and a "failure to distinguish policy 1 torn process" (p. 5). Felzenberg 's most valuable contribution comes in his concluding chapter, in which he offers selected lessons that citizens can use in evaluating candidates and presidents.