Policy Making And Executive Action

Author : Meena Bose,Andrew Rudalevige
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815737964

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Executive Policymaking by Meena Bose,Andrew Rudalevige Pdf

A deep look into the agency that implements the president's marching orders to the rest of the executive branch The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies—but it's also one of the least-known among the general public. This book describes why the office is so important and why both scholars and citizens should know more about what it does. The predecessor to the modern OMB was founded in 1921, as the Bureau of the Budget within the Treasury Department. President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved it in 1939 into the Executive Office of the President, where it's been ever since. The office received its current name in 1970, during the Nixon administration. For most people who know about it, the OMB's only apparent job is to supervise preparation of the president's annual budget request to Congress. That job, in itself, gives the office tremendous influence within the executive branch. But OMB has other responsibilities that give it a central role in how the federal government functions on a daily basis. OMB reviews all of the administration's legislative proposals and the president's executive orders. It oversees the development and implementation of nearly all government management initiatives. The office also analyses the costs and benefits of major government regulations, this giving it great sway over government actions that affect nearly every person and business in America. One question facing voters in the 2020 elections will be how well the executive branch has carried out the president's promises; a major aspect of that question centers around the wider work of the OMB. This book will help members of the public, as well as scholars and other experts, answer that question.

Author : Andrew Rudalevige
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691203713

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By Executive Order by Andrew Rudalevige Pdf

How the executive branch—not the president alone—formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's 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.

Author : Thomas J. McNicholas,Th. J. MacNichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014082249

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Policy Making and Executive Action by Thomas J. McNicholas,Th. J. MacNichols Pdf

Author : Roger B. Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521271126

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Presidential Decision Making by Roger B. Porter Pdf

This inside account of decision making in the White House describes the organizational challenges the President faces. The Economic Policy Board was one of the most systematic and sustained attempts to organize advice for the President in recent decades. The author examines the Board's deliberations over three controversial policy issues, drawing on scores of interviews with cabinet officials and career civil servants.

Author : Daniel Paul Gitterman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Executive orders
ISBN : 0815729022

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Calling the Shots by Daniel Paul Gitterman Pdf

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government. The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government--the executive, the legislative, and the judicial--but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative force at the federal level. In fact, Daniel Gitterman tells us, the president is, effectively, the CEO of an enormous federal bureaucracy. Using the unique legal authority delegated by thousands of laws, the ability to issue executive orders, and the capacity to shape how federal agencies write and enforce rules, the president calls the shots as to how the government is run on a daily basis. Modern presidents have, for example, used the power of the purchaser to require federal contractors to pay a minimum wage and to prohibit contracting with companies and contractors that knowingly employ unauthorized alien workers. Presidents and their staffs use specific tools, including executive orders and memoranda to agency heads, as instruments of control and influence over the government and the private sector. For more than a century, they have used these tools without violating the separation of powers. Calling the Shots demonstrates how each of these executive powers is a powerful weapon of coercion and redistribution in the president's political and policymaking arsenal.

Author : Marion Bayard Folsom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Decision-making
ISBN : UCAL:B4415259

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Executive Decision Making by Marion Bayard Folsom Pdf

Author : Thomas J. MacNichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070397882

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Policy Making and executive action by Thomas J. MacNichols Pdf

Author : John Mark Keyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : 0433460253

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Executive Legislation by John Mark Keyes Pdf

Author : Ruth P. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015001852493

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The President and Civil Rights by Ruth P. Morgan Pdf

Author : TT Arvind,Richard Kirkham,Daithí Mac Síthigh,Lindsay Stirton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509930357

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Executive Decision-Making and the Courts by TT Arvind,Richard Kirkham,Daithí Mac Síthigh,Lindsay Stirton Pdf

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission. The 'Quartet' is generally acknowledged to have marked a turning point in the development of court-centred administrative law, and can be understood as a 'formative moment' in the emergence of modern judicial review. These cases are examined not only in terms of the points each case decided, and their contribution to administrative law doctrine, but also in terms of the underlying conception of the tasks of administrative law implicit in the Quartet. By doing so, the book sheds new light on both the complex processes through which the modern system of judicial review emerged and the constitutional choices that are implicit in its jurisprudence. It further reflects upon the implications of these historical processes for how the achievements, failings and limitations of the common law in reviewing actions of the executive can be evaluated.

Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300262476

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Democracy and Executive Power by Susan Rose-Ackerman Pdf

A defense of regulatory agencies’ efforts to combine public consultation with bureaucratic expertise to serve the interest of all citizens The statutory delegation of rule-making authority to the executive has recently become a source of controversy. There are guiding models, but none, Susan Rose-Ackerman claims, is a good fit with the needs of regulating in the public interest. Using a cross-national comparison of public policy-making in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, she argues that public participation inside executive rule-making processes is necessary to preserve the legitimacy of regulatory policy-making.

Author : Adam B. Cox,Cristina M. Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190694388

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The President and Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox,Cristina M. Rodríguez Pdf

Who controls American immigration policy? The biggest immigration controversies of the last decade have all involved policies produced by the President policies such as President Obama's decision to protect Dreamers from deportation and President Trump's proclamation banning immigrants from several majority-Muslim nations. While critics of these policies have been separated by a vast ideological chasm, their broadsides have embodied the same widely shared belief: that Congress, not the President, ought to dictate who may come to the United States and who will be forced to leave. This belief is a myth. In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy from founding-era disputes over deporting sympathizers with France to contemporary debates about asylum-seekers at the Southern border they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Far more importantly, they also uncover how the Executive's ordinary power to decide when to enforce the law, and against whom, has become an extraordinarily powerful vehicle for making immigration policy. This pathbreaking account helps us understand how the United States ?has come to run an enormous shadow immigration system-one in which nearly half of all noncitizens in the country are living in violation of the law. It also provides a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays in shaping the national community, while also outlining strategies to curb the abuse of law enforcement authority in immigration and beyond.

Author : Adam L. Warber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063653359

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Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency by Adam L. Warber Pdf

Explores whether and how modern presidents use executive orders to establish policy unconstrained by the legislative process.

Author : Thomas J. McNichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Decision-making
ISBN : LCCN:67017200

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Policy Making and Executive Action by Thomas J. McNichols Pdf

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700626854

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President Obama by Louis Fisher Pdf

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles. In particular, he objected to George W. Bush's claim to certain "inherent" presidential powers that could not be checked by Congress or the judiciary. After his inauguration, how did President Obama's constitutional principles fare? That is the question Louis Fisher explores in this book, a disturbing and timely study of the tension between constitutional aspirations and executive actions in the American presidency. A constitutional scholar, Fisher views Obama's two terms within the context of other presidencies, and in light of the principles set forth by the Framers. His work reveals how the basic system of checks and balances has been substantially altered by Supreme Court decisions, military initiatives, and scholarship promoting the power of the president--and by presidents progressively more inclined to wield that power. In this analysis we see the steps by which Obama, himself an expert on the Constitution, came to press his agenda more and more aggressively through executive actions: on climate change, renewable energy, the auto industry bail-out, education initiatives, and financial reform. Rather than focus on policy, Fisher examines the politics and practical concerns that drive executive overreach, as well as the impact of such expanded powers on bipartisan support, public understanding, and finally, the functioning of government. A fair but critical assessment of Obama's executive performance and legacy, this sobering book documents the erosion of constitutional principles that prepared the way for the presidency of Donald Trump.