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The Presidency and Public Policy Making (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
The Presidency and Public Policy Making - Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies Author:George C. Edwards, Steven A. Shull The premise behind this book is that policy making provides a useful perspective for studying the presidency, perhaps the most important and least understood policy-making institution in the United States. The eleven essays focus on diverse aspects of presidential policy making, providing insights on the presidency and its relationship to other... more » policy-making actors and institutions. Major topics addressed include the environment of presidential policy making and the constraints it places on the chief executive; relationships with those outside the executive branch that are central to presidential policy making; attempts to lead the public and Congress; presidential decision making; and administration or implementation of policies in the executive branch, a topic that has received limited attention in the literature on the presidency.« less