Power without Persuasion : : The Politics of Direct Presidential Action / / William G. Howell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Howell, William G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 18 line illus. 20 tables.

Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of U.S. presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in this formulation, is strictly about bargaining and convincing other political actors to do things the president cannot accomplish al...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• 1. Presidential Power in the Modern Era
• 2. A Formal Representation of Unilateral Action
• 3. Bridge Building
• 4. Theory Testing
• 5. Congressional Constraints on Presidential Power
• 6. The Institutional Foundations of Judicial Deference
• 7. Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Coding of Executive Orders
• Appendix 2. Proofs of Propositions in the Unilateral Politics Model
• Appendix 3. Identifying Congressional Challenges to Executive Orders
• Appendix 4. Federal Court Challenges to Executive Orders
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index