By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power

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How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterally The president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are propos

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"Winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"

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Andrew Rudalevige is the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. His books include Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation (Princeton) and The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate. Twitter @rudalev