By Executive Order : Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power /
Rudalevige, Andrew
By Executive Order : Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power / Andrew Rudalevige. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 20 b/w illus. 21 tables.
Frontmatter -- contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. “On My Own”? Executive Orders and the Executive Branch -- 2. Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Presidential Management and Unilateral Policy Formulation -- 3. Executive Orders: Structure and Process -- 4. Executive Orders: Birds, Bees, and Data -- 5. Testing Presidential Management: The Conditions of Centralization -- 6. A Brief History of Time (to Issuance) -- 7. “Dear John”: The Orders That Never Were -- 8. Incorrigibly Plural: Concluding Thoughts and Next Steps -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index
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How the executive branch—not the president alone—formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. By Executive Order provides the first comprehensive look at how presidential directives are written—and by whom.In this eye-opening book, Andrew Rudalevige examines more than five hundred executive orders from the 1930s to today—as well as more than two hundred others negotiated but never issued—shedding vital new light on the multilateral process of drafting supposedly unilateral directives. He draws on a wealth of archival evidence from the Office of Management and Budget and presidential libraries as well as original interviews to show how the crafting of orders requires widespread consultation and compromise with a formidable bureaucracy. Rudalevige explains the key role of management in the presidential skill set, detailing how bureaucratic resistance can stall and even prevent actions the chief executive desires, and how presidents must bargain with the bureaucracy even when they seek to act unilaterally.Challenging popular conceptions about the scope of presidential power, By Executive Order reveals how the executive branch holds the power to both enact and constrain the president’s will.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691203713
10.1515/9780691203713 doi
Executive orders--History--United States--20th century.
Executive orders--History--United States--21st century.
Executive power--History--United States--20th century.
Executive power--History--United States--21st century.
Presidents--History--United States--20th century.
Presidents--History--United States--21st century.
Separation of powers--History--United States--20th century.
Separation of powers--History--United States--21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
Adam L. Warber. American presidency. Article II. Bill Clinton. Bush. EO. EOs. Eisenhower. Enigma of Presidential Power. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency. Fang-Yi Chiou. Gerald Ford. Graham G. Dodds. JFK. Jimmy Carter. John F. Kennedy. LBJ. Lawrence S. Rothenberg. Lyndon Johnson. Nixon. Obama. Office of Management and Budget. Reagan. Roosevelt. Take Up Your Pen. Truman. Trump. White House. bureaucratic politics. central clearance. executive action. presidential history. presidential unilateralism. unilateralism.
JK511 / .R83 2021
352.2350973
By Executive Order : Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power / Andrew Rudalevige. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 20 b/w illus. 21 tables.
Frontmatter -- contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. “On My Own”? Executive Orders and the Executive Branch -- 2. Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Presidential Management and Unilateral Policy Formulation -- 3. Executive Orders: Structure and Process -- 4. Executive Orders: Birds, Bees, and Data -- 5. Testing Presidential Management: The Conditions of Centralization -- 6. A Brief History of Time (to Issuance) -- 7. “Dear John”: The Orders That Never Were -- 8. Incorrigibly Plural: Concluding Thoughts and Next Steps -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
How the executive branch—not the president alone—formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. By Executive Order provides the first comprehensive look at how presidential directives are written—and by whom.In this eye-opening book, Andrew Rudalevige examines more than five hundred executive orders from the 1930s to today—as well as more than two hundred others negotiated but never issued—shedding vital new light on the multilateral process of drafting supposedly unilateral directives. He draws on a wealth of archival evidence from the Office of Management and Budget and presidential libraries as well as original interviews to show how the crafting of orders requires widespread consultation and compromise with a formidable bureaucracy. Rudalevige explains the key role of management in the presidential skill set, detailing how bureaucratic resistance can stall and even prevent actions the chief executive desires, and how presidents must bargain with the bureaucracy even when they seek to act unilaterally.Challenging popular conceptions about the scope of presidential power, By Executive Order reveals how the executive branch holds the power to both enact and constrain the president’s will.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691203713
10.1515/9780691203713 doi
Executive orders--History--United States--20th century.
Executive orders--History--United States--21st century.
Executive power--History--United States--20th century.
Executive power--History--United States--21st century.
Presidents--History--United States--20th century.
Presidents--History--United States--21st century.
Separation of powers--History--United States--20th century.
Separation of powers--History--United States--21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
Adam L. Warber. American presidency. Article II. Bill Clinton. Bush. EO. EOs. Eisenhower. Enigma of Presidential Power. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency. Fang-Yi Chiou. Gerald Ford. Graham G. Dodds. JFK. Jimmy Carter. John F. Kennedy. LBJ. Lawrence S. Rothenberg. Lyndon Johnson. Nixon. Obama. Office of Management and Budget. Reagan. Roosevelt. Take Up Your Pen. Truman. Trump. White House. bureaucratic politics. central clearance. executive action. presidential history. presidential unilateralism. unilateralism.
JK511 / .R83 2021
352.2350973