Managing the President''s Program - Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation

Zusatztext "Winner of the Neustadt Award" Informationen zum Autor Andrew Rudalevige is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Klappentext The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all certain nor necessary for policy promotion. In Managing the President's Program, he presents a far more complex and interesting picture of the use of presidential staff. Drawing on transaction cost theory, Rudalevige constructs a framework of "contingent centralization" to predict when presidents will use White House and/or departmental staff resources for policy formulation. He backs his assertions through an unprecedented quantitative analysis of a new data set of policy proposals covering almost fifty years of the postwar era from Truman to Clinton.Rudalevige finds that presidents are not bound by a relentless compulsion to centralize but follow a more subtle strategy of staff allocation that makes efficient use of limited bargaining resources. New items and, for example, those spanning agency jurisdictions, are most likely to be centralized; complex items follow a mixed process. The availability of expertise outside the White House diminishes centralization. However, while centralization is a management strategy appropriate for engaging the wider executive branch, it can imperil an item's fate in Congress. Thus, as this well-written book makes plain, presidential leadership hinges on hard choices as presidents seek to simultaneously manage the executive branch and attain legislative success. Winner of the Neustadt award Zusammenfassung The belief that US presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all certain nor necessary for policy promotion....

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Rudalevige, Andrew C. Rudalevige
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2002
• EAN: 9780691095011
• ISBN: 978-0-691-09501-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American; Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political structure & processes, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Political structure and processes, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Central government policies