Theories and Dilemmas John P. Burke. many of whom had their salaries paid through vacant departmental positions even though they worked at the White House and reported directly to FDR. In 1936, he created the Brownlow Committee to ...
A more complex picture of executive branch operations beyond the president's personal network is offered by Charles Walcott and Karen Hult, who examine the evolution of White House staff structures from to (see Charles ...
This book explores how American presidents--especially those of the past three decades--have increased the power of the presidency at the expense of democracy.
Franck, The Tethered Presidency; and Robert J. Spitzer, President and Con— gress: Executive Hegemony at the Crossroads of American Government (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), p. xiv. 12. Jean Blondel, Political Leadership: ...
Ordinarily, as an executive officer, Cox could have been removed at the president's request. However, the attorney general had promised the Senate that he would not interfere in Cox's investigations and would only act to remove Cox “for ...
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.
Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership, with Reflections on Johnson and Nixon
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 ...
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The politics of leadership from FDR to Carter.
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Presidential Power
This text provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues, constraints, and exercise of presidential power.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.