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Book The Institutionalized Presidency

Download or read book The Institutionalized Presidency written by Norman C. Thomas and published by Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 1972 [c1971]. This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Institutional Presidency

Download or read book The Institutional Presidency written by John P. Burke and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the institutional presidency that emerged during the Roosevelt administration, this new edition includes a revised chapter on the Bush administration and a new chapter on Bill Clinton.

Book The American Presidency

Download or read book The American Presidency written by William G. Howell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How institutions shape the American presidency This incisive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the institutional sources of presidential power and executive governance, enabling students to think more clearly and systematically about the American presidency at a time when media coverage of the White House is awash in anecdotes and personalities. William Howell offers unparalleled perspective on the world’s most powerful office, from its original design in the Constitution to its historical growth over time; its elections and transitions to governance; its interactions with Congress, the courts, and the federal bureaucracy; and its persistent efforts to shape public policy. Comprehensive in scope and rooted in the latest scholarship, The American Presidency is the perfect guide for studying the presidency at a time of acute partisan polarization and popular anxiety about the health and well-being of the republic. Focuses on the institutional structures that presidents must navigate, the incentives and opportunities that drive them, and the constraints they routinely confront Shows how legislators, judges, bureaucrats, the media, and the broader public shape the contours and limits of presidential power Encourages students to view the institutional presidency as not just an object of study but a way of thinking about executive politics Highlights the lasting effects of important historical moments on the institutional presidency Enables students to grapple with enduring themes of power, rules, norms, and organization that undergird democracy

Book Scripted for Change

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  • Author : Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2007-06-25
  • ISBN : 1585445851
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Scripted for Change written by Victoria A. Farrar-Myers and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without a doubt, the institution of the presidency today is quite different from the one that existed throughout the early part of the nation’s history, despite only minimal revisions to its formal constitutional structure. The processes by which the institution of the presidency has developed have remained largely unexamined, however. Victoria A. Farrar-Myers offers a carefully crafted argument about how changes in presidential authority transform the institution. Her analysis tracks interactions between the president and Congress during the years 1881–1920 in three policy areas: the commitment of troops, the creation of administrative agencies, and the adoption of tariff policy. Farrar-Myers shows that Congress and the president have in fact “created a coordinated script that provides the basis of precedent for future interactions under similar circumstances.” Changes in presidential authority, she argues, “are the residual of everyday actions,” which create new shared understandings of expected behavior. As these understandings are reinforced over time, they become interwoven into the institution of the presidency itself. Farrar-Myers’s analysis will offer theoretical guidance for political scientists’ understanding of the development of presidential authority and the processes that drive the institutionalization of the presidency, and will provide historians with a nuanced understanding of the institution from the period between the end of Reconstruction and the Progressive era.

Book The Institutional Presidency

Download or read book The Institutional Presidency written by John P. Burke and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everybody Believes in Democracy Until He Gets to the White House  an Examination of White House Departmental Relations

Download or read book Everybody Believes in Democracy Until He Gets to the White House an Examination of White House Departmental Relations written by Harvey Claflin Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congress and the Presidency

Download or read book Congress and the Presidency written by Michael Foley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . The authors emphasise the dynamism of America's foremost political institutions within a democratic system. They examine recent developments in relation to the wider context of United States politics and reassert the importance of institutions in understanding this unique political system.

Book Papers on the Institutionalized Presidency

Download or read book Papers on the Institutionalized Presidency written by Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Institutional Presidency

Download or read book The Institutional Presidency written by Ralph Gordon Hoxie and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency

Download or read book Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency written by Mordecai Lee and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its creation of the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency in 1916, Congress sought to bring the principles of "scientific management" to the federal government. Although this first staff agency in the executive branch lasted only a relatively short time, it was the first central agency in the federal government dedicated to improving the management of the executive branch. Mordecai Lee offers both a chronological history of the agency and a thematic treatment of the structure, staffing, and work processes of the bureau; its substantive activities; and its effects on the development of both the executive and the legislative branches. Charged with conducting management and policy analyses at the direction of the president, this bureau presaged the emergence of the activist and modern executive branch. The Bureau of Efficiency was also the first legislative branch agency, ushering in the large administrative infrastructure that now supports the policy-making and program oversight roles of Congress. The Bureau of Efficiency's assistance to presidents foreshadowed the eventual change in the role of the president vis-a-vis Congress; it helped upend the separation of powers doctrine by giving the modern executive the management tools for preeminence over the legislative branch.

Book Presidency by Plebiscite

Download or read book Presidency by Plebiscite written by Craig A. Rimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. presidency has been characterized in a variety of ways - imperial, impossible, imperiled; personal, plural, postmodern - depending on the era and who was in office. In this book, Professor Rimmerman outlines the attributes of the plebiscitary presidency, a form of the office that dates from the FDR period but that has been most fully exploited by Ronald Reagan. By contrasting the Reagan and Bush administrations, the author points up the shortcomings of a presidency that operates by plebiscite and directs us toward a new standard for electing and evaluating presidents - one that insists on a respect for institutional limitations and effective citizen participation. Participatory democracy is essential to counter the dangers of trends toward "presidency by plebiscite" such as hero worship and direct tele-electronic democracy, which were illustrated by Ross Perot's appeal to the American public during the 1992 elections.

Book Presidential Power

Download or read book Presidential Power written by John P. Burke and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's classic study, first published in 1960, there has not been a book that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power. Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P. Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues, constraints, and exercise of presidential power. This book considers the enduring question of how presidents can effectively exercise power within our system of shared powers by examining major tools and theories of presidential power, including Neustadt's theory of persuasion and bargaining as power, constitutional and inherent powers, Samuel Kernell's theory of going public, models of historical time, and the notion of internal time. Using illustrative examples from historical and contemporary presidencies, Burke helps students and scholars better understand how presidents can manage the public's expectations, navigate presidential-congressional relations, and exercise influence in order to achieve their policy goals.

Book The Institutional Presidency

Download or read book The Institutional Presidency written by Center for the Study of the Presidency and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Researching the Presidency

Download or read book Researching the Presidency written by George C. Edwards and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1993-02-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together two groups of scholars. The first, persons active in presidential research, assess the state of the literature in the recruitment and selection of presidential candidates, presidential personality, advisory networks, policy making, evaluations of presidents, and comparative analysis of chief executives.A second group of scholars, specialists in cognitive psychology, formal theory, organization theory, leadership theory, institutionalism, and methodology, apply their expertise to the analysis of the presidentcy in an effort to generate innovative approaches to presidential research. By taking a fresh look at a well-established field, these groundbreaking essays encourage scholars to renew their emphasis on explanation in research.

Book Presidential Power

Download or read book Presidential Power written by Robert Y. Shapiro and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Neustadt's seminal work Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership has endured for nearly four decades as the core of academic study of the American presidency. Now, building on and challenging many of the arguments in Neustadt's work, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century offers reflections and implications from what we have learned about presidential power as the new century dawns. These essays—including a new contribution by Neustadt himself—forge a solid reexamination of Neustadt's Presidential Power that address questions raised but not resolved by his work. A notable aspect of this volume's analysis is the transformed institution of the presidency in the wake of the impeachment hearings of the country's last twentieth-century president, Bill Clinton. From the portrayal of presidents as persuaders to the politics of presidential transitions, each of the constituent essays in this volume provides an engaging look at the state of the American presidency.

Book Reexamining the Growth of the Institutional Presidency  1940 2000

Download or read book Reexamining the Growth of the Institutional Presidency 1940 2000 written by Matthew J. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars differ regarding the reason for the institutionalization of a large, functionally specialized White House-centered presidential staff system during the last six decades. Among the factors cited is a general growth in government size and complexity, increases in the presidential workload, and the institutional rivalry between the president and Congress. However, using new advances in time-series analysis based on fractional integration, we show that these models of staff growth are plagued by conceptual and methodological shortcomings that render their substantive conclusions unreliable. In response, we develop and test a comprehensive explanatory model that combines elements of previous research but uses fractional integration to account more accurately for whether newly created staff positions are institutionalized. We find that presidential staff growth is driven primarily by changes in presidents' bargaining relations with Congress, the media, and the public, and only secondarily by a general growth in government's responsibilities.

Book The President on Capitol Hill

Download or read book The President on Capitol Hill written by Jeffrey E. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead, structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of the president’s legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey E. Cohen challenges this conventional view, arguing that existing research has underestimated the president’s power to sway Congress and developing a new theory of presidential influence. Cohen demonstrates that by taking a position, the president converts an issue from a nonpresidential into a presidential one, which leads members of Congress to consider the president’s views when deciding how to vote. Presidential position taking also converts the factors that normally affect roll call voting—such as party, public opinion, and policy type—into resources that presidents can leverage to influence the vote. By testing all House roll calls from 1877 to 2012, Cohen finds that not only do presidents have more influence than previously thought, but through their influence, they can affect the substance of public policy. The President on Capitol Hill offers a new perspective on presidential-congressional relations, showing that presidents are not simply captives of larger political forces but rather major players in the legislative process.