TY - BOOK AU - Rudalevige,Andrew TI - By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power SN - 9780691203713 AV - JK511 .R83 2021 U1 - 352.2350973 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Executive orders KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Executive power KW - Presidents KW - Separation of powers KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch KW - bisacsh KW - Adam L. Warber KW - American presidency KW - Article II KW - Bill Clinton KW - Bush KW - EO KW - EOs KW - Eisenhower KW - Enigma of Presidential Power KW - Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency KW - Fang-Yi Chiou KW - Gerald Ford KW - Graham G. Dodds KW - JFK KW - Jimmy Carter KW - John F. Kennedy KW - LBJ KW - Lawrence S. Rothenberg KW - Lyndon Johnson KW - Nixon KW - Obama KW - Office of Management and Budget KW - Reagan KW - Roosevelt KW - Take Up Your Pen KW - Truman KW - Trump KW - White House KW - bureaucratic politics KW - central clearance KW - executive action KW - presidential history KW - presidential unilateralism KW - unilateralism N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691203713?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691203713 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691203713/original ER -