Joseph M. Bessette, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/DIVERSITY, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, DIVERSITY, American Politics, Congress, Crime and Criminal Justice, Government Ethics, Prison System, Ethics and Moral Issues

Selected Research and Publications

• “Confronting War: Rethinking Justice Robert Jackson’s Concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer” in The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, ed. Stephen Macedo and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2010)
• American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy, and Citizenship, with John J. Pitney (Cengage/Wadsworth, forthcoming 2010)
• The Constitutional Presidency, ed. Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
• “The Powers and Duties of the President: Recovering the Logic and Meaning of Article II” (with Gary J. Schmitt) in The Constitutional Presidency
• “In Pursuit of Criminal Justice,” The Public Interest, No. 129 (Fall 1997)