Description: By Executive Order : Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power, Paperback by Rudalevige, Andrew, ISBN 069119436X, ISBN-13 9780691194363, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
How the executive branch—not the president alone—formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executives ability to act unilaterally
The 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.
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Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: By Executive Order : Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, American Government / Executive Branch, American Government / National
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Andrew Rudalevige
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
