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Studies of presidential policy making have generally focused on the bureaucratic structures from which policy emerges. Only Steven Shull's Presidential Policy Making: An Analysis (Brunswick, Ohio: King's Court Communications, 1979) has analyzed presidential policy with regard to the boundaries of the policy process itself. Shull's framework allows for analysis of substance & process, & is used in a review of policy-related research on the presidency. Substantive research issues are basically divided between those concerned with domestic & those concerned with foreign & defense policies. Presidential policy is seen to have been increasingly influenced in recent years by international economic problems at an aggregate level. Policy processes fall within two main theoretical frameworks -- the pluralistic politics model, & the bureaucratic politics model. Organizational analyses of the presidency are also reviewed. D. Dunseath.