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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudalevige, Andrew, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Executive power > United States > History > 20th century.
Executive power > United States > History > 21st century.
Executive orders > United States > History > 20th century.
Executive orders > United States > History > 21st century.
Separation of powers > United States > History > 20th century.
Separation of powers > United States > History > 21st century.
Presidents > United States > History > 20th century.
Presidents > United States > History > 21st century.
Executive orders.
Executive power.
Presidents.
Separation of powers.
United States.
1900-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.