By executive order : bureaucratic management and the limits of presidential power / Andrew Rudalevige.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudalevige, Andrew, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource) : 20 b/w illus. 21 tables.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691194363

069119436X

9780691203713

0691203717

OCLC:

1235970815