Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars As Presidential Management Tools - Rilegato

Vaughn, Justin S.; Villalobos, Jose D.

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ISBN 10: 0472119583 ISBN 13: 9780472119585

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2015

Riassunto

When Barack Obama entered the White House, he followed a long-standing precedent for the development and implementation of major policies by appointing administrators—so-called policy czars—charged with directing the response to the nation’s most pressing crises. Demonstrating that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combating partisan polarization and navigating the federal government’s complexity, Vaughn and Villalobos offer a sober, empirical analysis of what precisely constitutes a czar and what role they have played in the modern presidency.

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L'autore:

Justin S. Vaughn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boise State University. José D. Villalobos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Product Description:

When Barack Obama entered the White House, he faced numerous urgent issues. Despite the citizensAE demand for strong presidential leadership, President Obama, following a long-standing precedent for the development and implementation of major policies, appointed administrators - so-called policy czars - charged with directing theresponse to the nationAEs most pressing crises. Combining public administration and political science approaches to the study of the American presidency and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn and JosU D. Villalobos argue that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combating partisan polarization and navigating the federalgovernmentAEs complexity. They present a series of in-depth analyses of the appointment, role, and power of various czars: the energy czar in the mid-1970s, the drug czar in the late 1980s, the AIDS czar in the 1990s, George W. BushAEs national security czars after 9/11, and ObamaAEs controversial czars for key domestic issues. Laying aside inflammatory political rhetoric, Vaughn and Villalobos offer a sober, empirical analysis of precisely what constitutes a czar, why Obama and his predecessors used czars, and what role they have played in the modern presidency.

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• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0472119583
• ISBN 13: 9780472119585
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 236