Executive Branch

Name: Executive Branch
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ISBN: 9780195309157

ISBN-10: 0195309154

ISBN-13: 9780195309157

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Authors: Joel D. Aberbach, Mark A. Peterson

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The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers necessary to hold the executive in check. The Executive Branch, edited byJoel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, examines the delicate and shifting balance among the three branches of government, which is constantly renegotiated as political leaders contend with the public's paradoxical sentiments-yearning for strong executive leadership yet fearing too much executive power, and welcoming the…

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List price: $39.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Directory of Contributors



General Introduction: The Executive Branch as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy


Introduction: Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American Democracy




The Historical and Comparative Context



The Evolution of the Presidency: Between the Promise and the Fear




The Evolution of National Bureaucracy in the United States




Giving Direction to Government in Comparative Perspective




Presidential Behavior and the Institutions of the Presidency



Presidential Elections and American Democracy




The Executive Office of the President: The Paradox of Politicization




Communicating from the White House: Presidential Narrowcasting and the National Interest




The Person of the President, Leadership, and Greatness




The People and Politics of the Executive Agencies



The Complex Organization of the Executive Branch: The Legacies of Competing Approaches to Administration




The Federal Public Service: The People and the Challenge




Caught in the Middle: The President, Congress, and the Political-Bureaucratic System




Reforming the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government




The President, Executive Agencies, and the Institutions of Policy Making



Executive Power and Political Parties: The Dilemmas of Scale in American Democracy




The Executive Branch and the Legislative Process




The Courts, Jurisprudence, and the Executive Branch




Federalism and the Executive Branch




The Past and Future of the Executive Branch



Control and Accountability: Dilemmas of the Executive Branch



Index