Executive Orders and Presidential Power
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-09499-1
Verlag: Princeton University Press
The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority. In this first-ever in-depth study of executive orders, Kenneth Mayer deals a strong blow to this view. Taking civil rights and foreign policy as examples, he shows how presidents have used a key tool of executive power to wield their inherent legal authority and pursue policy without congressional interference. Throughout the nation's life, executive orders have allowed presidents to make momentous, unilateral policy choices: creating and abolishing executive branch agencies, reorganizing administrative and regulatory processes, handling emergencies, and determining how legislation is implemented. From the Louisiana Purchase to the Emancipation Proclamation, from Franklin Roosevelt's establishment of the Executive Office of the President to Bill Clinton's authorization of loan guarantees for Mexico, from Harry Truman's integration of the armed forces to Ronald Reagan's seizures of regulatory control, American presidents have used executive orders (or their equivalents) to legislate in ways that extend far beyond administrative activity. By analyzing the pattern of presidents' use of executive orders and the relationship of those orders to the presidency as an institution, Mayer describes an office much more powerful and active than the one depicted in the bulk of the political science literature. This distinguished work of scholarship shows that the U.S. presidency has a great deal more than the oft-cited "power to persuade."
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
One: Why Are Executive Orders Important? 3
Two: Executive Orders and the Law 34
Three: Patterns of Use 66
Four: Executive Orders and the Institutional Presidency 109
Five: Executive Orders and Foreign Affairs 138
Six: Executive Orders and Civil Rights 182
Seven: Conclusion 218
List of Abbreviations 225
Notes 227
Index 279
