Given gridlock in Congress, presidents and subunits of Congress are increasingly pursuing their policy goals in the executive branch. Yet we know little about how they go about doing so. In Chapter 1, I introduce the broad notion of positive agenda control by the president. Up until this point, the existing literature has been narrowly focused on presidents' negative agenda control over agencies (Moe 1985; Nathan 1983) and has only recognized positive agenda control in terms of executive orders (Moe and Howell 1999; Howell 2003). I argue that presidents direct their resources toward allied agencies to strengthen, pass, and implement policies the president supports. Using a newly collected dataset, I look at the Office of Information and Reg...
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama told Congress that if they continued to ob...
In recent years, at least since President Reagan\u27s precedent-setting Executive Order 12291, the p...
Institutional interaction between the executive and legislative branches is of the essence to Americ...
In an era of increased concern over presidential power, congressional oversight of the executive bra...
I make three major theoretical moves in this project. I begin by treating the administration and Con...
For decades, presidential scholars have posed various theories of what makes the President of the Un...
The oversight and review of government agencies is an important part of Congress’ function. But can ...
Does the president or Congress have more influence over policymaking by the bureaucracy? Despite a w...
Over the past quarter century, administrative law scholars have observed the President’s growing con...
More than 2.5 million people work across the entire executive branch of the US government in hundred...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112296/1/lsq12080.pd
Longstanding debates over the allocation of foreign affairs power between Congress and the President...
In recent decades, presidents of both political parties have asserted increasingly aggressive forms ...
This dissertation offers an extended argument about White House aides' strategy for prosecuting the ...
Presidents Reagan and Clinton laid the foundation for strong presidential control over the administr...
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama told Congress that if they continued to ob...
In recent years, at least since President Reagan\u27s precedent-setting Executive Order 12291, the p...
Institutional interaction between the executive and legislative branches is of the essence to Americ...
In an era of increased concern over presidential power, congressional oversight of the executive bra...
I make three major theoretical moves in this project. I begin by treating the administration and Con...
For decades, presidential scholars have posed various theories of what makes the President of the Un...
The oversight and review of government agencies is an important part of Congress’ function. But can ...
Does the president or Congress have more influence over policymaking by the bureaucracy? Despite a w...
Over the past quarter century, administrative law scholars have observed the President’s growing con...
More than 2.5 million people work across the entire executive branch of the US government in hundred...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112296/1/lsq12080.pd
Longstanding debates over the allocation of foreign affairs power between Congress and the President...
In recent decades, presidents of both political parties have asserted increasingly aggressive forms ...
This dissertation offers an extended argument about White House aides' strategy for prosecuting the ...
Presidents Reagan and Clinton laid the foundation for strong presidential control over the administr...
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama told Congress that if they continued to ob...
In recent years, at least since President Reagan\u27s precedent-setting Executive Order 12291, the p...
Institutional interaction between the executive and legislative branches is of the essence to Americ...