The Politicizing Presidency
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The Politicizing Presidency
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Author : Thomas J. Weko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Politicizing Presidency written by Thomas J. Weko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Truman to Clinton presidents have aggressively tried to expand their control over national government. In the process, they have vastly enlarged their White House staffs and politicized the federal bureaucracy with thousands of appointees in key administrative positions. Thomas Weko argues that the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), charged with screening and recommending such appointees, both exemplifies and helps explain the enormous growth of presidential power since World War II. Originally conceived as a small advisory group within the White House Office, the PPO has grown enormously from a staff of two under Truman to as many as sixty under other presidents and now oversees nearly four thousand appointments per administration. Weko charts the PPO's evolution and influence and shows how central it is to our understanding of modern presidential leadership. Weko's starting point is Terry Moe's rational choice theory that it is the institution of the presidency, not the sitting president, that fosters centralization and politicization within the executive branch. Amplifying and extending Moe's theory, Weko persuasively links the PPO's explosive growth to the weakening of political parties, the post-Eisenhower disintegration of "policy networks," the growing impact of television news, and the public's increasing readiness to hold the President accountable for policy failures. The PPO's growth clearly has increased presidential control and bureaucratic responsiveness. But Weko argues those results have had unanticipated and unwanted consequences that, among other things, have undermined the integrity and capabilities of administrative agencies. Any improvement in the leadership of the executive branch, he contends, can only emerge from changes in the current institutional arrangement of the presidency itself. Based on exhaustive research in White House files, oral histories, and memoirs, and personal interviews with over 100 White House aides, Weko's study provides a provocative new look at the White House Office and the modern presidency.
The Politics Of Presidential Appointments
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Author : David E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-16
The Politics Of Presidential Appointments written by David E. Lewis and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with Political Science categories.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many questioned whether the large number of political appointees in the Federal Emergency Management Agency contributed to the agency's poor handling of the catastrophe, ultimately costing hundreds of lives and causing immeasurable pain and suffering. The Politics of Presidential Appointments examines in depth how and why presidents use political appointees and how their choices impact government performance--for better or worse. One way presidents can influence the permanent bureaucracy is by filling key posts with people who are sympathetic to their policy goals. But if the president's appointees lack competence and an agency fails in its mission--as with Katrina--the president is accused of employing his friends and allies to the detriment of the public. Through case studies and cutting-edge analysis, David Lewis takes a fascinating look at presidential appointments dating back to the 1960s to learn which jobs went to appointees, which agencies were more likely to have appointees, how the use of appointees varied by administration, and how it affected agency performance. He argues that presidents politicize even when it hurts performance--and often with support from Congress--because they need agencies to be responsive to presidential direction. He shows how agency missions and personnel--and whether they line up with the president's vision--determine which agencies presidents target with appointees, and he sheds new light on the important role patronage plays in appointment decisions.
Good Advice
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Author : Daniel E. Ponder
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2000
Good Advice written by Daniel E. Ponder and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Electronic books categories.
The U.S. president has to make difficult, important, and very public decisions every day. We don't expect one person to be an expert in all the areas in which the president has to make decisions. So how do presidents do it? They rely on their staffs to give information and advice. "Good Advice" is a systematic study of Jimmy Carter's reign and those who advised him. Daniel E. Ponder discusses the president's policies, the advisors behind each, and how much of that advice ultimately became incorporated into the president's official proposals. The book's central thesis is that although presidents have tended to centralize policy-making authority in the White House staff, the dynamics of staff participation and consequent policy success vary from issue to issue, consistent with a theoretical framework Ponder calls staff shift. Ponder further analyzes how presidents decide whose advice to take and whose to ignore and the politics behind those decisions. Ponder examines each of the three major roles of staff advisory--policy directors, facilitators, and monitors--and discusses a "successful" and unsuccessful policy in each. He focuses on the six policy areas of education, youth employment, welfare reform, energy, national health insurance, and civil service reform. Ponder draws from myriad theoretical and methodological traditions to construct a sophisticated foundation upon which his analysis builds. His development of theoretical insights, backed with exhaustive documentation, contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of the presidency in its organizational and institutional environments. For those interested in presidential studies and American politics, this innovative study takes you into the Oval Office as it explains the process from information- and advice-giving to policy making in the presidency.
Politicizing The Presidency 1789 1980
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Author : Ralph Gordon Hoxie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Politicizing The Presidency 1789 1980 written by Ralph Gordon Hoxie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Presidents categories.
Presidential Use Of Centralization And Politicization
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Author : Nathan David Gibson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Presidential Use Of Centralization And Politicization written by Nathan David Gibson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Although the strategies of centralization-the creation of policy in the White House-and politicization-the use of political appointees to influence the bureaucracy-have long been considered foundational to the modern presidency, previous work had largely addressed these strategies independently and informally. This dissertation addresses both issues by presenting and then empirically testing formal models of the president's centralization and politicization decision. The first paper of the dissertation formally models the strategic trade-offs the president faces in creating a policy when both strategies are available, with one model focusing on policy creation and the other incorporating policy implementation. Among other new, counterintuitive predictions, I find that politicization should decrease when there is extreme ideological distance between the president and agency, in contrast to the previous literature. I also find that centralization and politicization act as substitutes, even when no such assumption is made about their relationship. The following papers test predictions from the models using a variety of data and methods. The second paper employs original survey items from the Survey on the Future of Government Service, a large-scale survey of federal government executives across three presidential administrations, to create the first measures of presidential centralization by policy area. In accordance with the theory, I find the first direct evidence that presidents are more likely to centralize as ideological distance between president and agency increases. I also create the first dependent variable to directly contrast centralized and politicized policy influence. With this measure, I show that centralization and politicization do not serve as complements, but that politicization is increasingly replaced by centralization as agencies grow more ideologically distant from the president. The third paper supplements these analyses by evaluating factors across time that affect centralization. With an archival-based measure of centralized policy creation of randomly sampled policies from the Eisenhower through Clinton administrations, I test how presidential use of centralization is affected by contextual factors such as divided government and centralized capacity. As predicted, centralization increases as centralized capacity expands, as well as when congressional ideology diverges from the president's preferences. I conclude with suggestions for future research.
Managing The President S Program
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Author : Andrew Rudalevige
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-21
Managing The President S Program written by Andrew Rudalevige and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Managing the President's Program: Necessary and Contingent Truths -- Bargaining, Transaction Costs, and Contingent Centralization -- The President's Program: History and Conventional Wisdom -- The President's Program: An Empirical Overview -- Putting Centralization to the Test -- Congress Is a Whiskey Drinker: Centralization and Legislative Success -- The Odds Are with the House: The Limits of Centralization -- Hard Choices.
The Politics Of The Presidency
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Author : Joseph August Pika
language : en
Publisher: C Q Press College
Release Date : 2002
The Politics Of The Presidency written by Joseph August Pika and has been published by C Q Press College this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Presidents categories.
Viewing the presidency as essentially a political office, the authors analyze the institution, the individuals who have served, the president's interaction with the public and other government branches and the chief executive's impact on public policy. The examine the president's various roles and show how effectiveness in office varies with the occupant's character, political style, and performance in a politicized environment. Noted scholar John Matlese joins the book in this edition which is revised and updated to include a full assessment of Clinton's last term in office and thorough coverage of George W. Bush's first 100 days in the White House.
The New Direction In American Politics
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Author : John E. Chubb
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2010-12-01
The New Direction In American Politics written by John E. Chubb and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Political Science categories.
Topics include: Part One: Voters and Elections The New Two-Party System The Economic Basis of Reagan's Appeal Incumbency and Realignment in Congressional Elections Campaigning, Governing, and the Contemporary Presidency The Republican Advantage in Campaign Finance The Rise of National Parties Part Two: Institutions and Policy New Patterns of Decisionmaking in Congress The Politicized Presidency Federalism and the Bias for Centralization Controlling Entitlements Security Policy The New Politics of Deficits
How The Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice
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Author : Andrew C McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2009-11-24
How The Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice written by Andrew C McCarthy and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Political Science categories.
With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics. In this eye-popping Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows that the biggest beneficiaries have been jihadists. For the past eight years, a group of lawyers volunteered their services to America’s enemies. Now, the Justice Department is rife with some of those same lawyers as it enhances due process for terrorists and feeds the international Left’s call for war-crimes charges against President Obama’s political adversaries. Just consider how the administration has disclosed national defense secrets during wartime or granted the 9/11 mass murderers a civilian trial. The department, moreover, is working to tighten the Democratic Party’s grip on power, ignoring the Constitution and green-lighting election fraud and abuse.
The Administrative Presidency
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Author : Richard P. Nathan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1983
The Administrative Presidency written by Richard P. Nathan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Political Science categories.