Andrew Rudalevige
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1209727 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Rudalevige |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Rudalevige |
| ASSINATURA | RUDALEVIGE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3361-8291 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Swept Away
Donald J. Trump began his second term with a tidal wave of presidential directives. A simple count does not equate to consequence—but, in aggregate, Trump’s directives had an important impact. Many of their targets were consistent with past presidential practice, although even then expanding prior claims to executive authority. Others, which exacted retribution on specific individuals or entities or ordered subordinates to disregard the law, were…
Implementing Executive Orders in the Administrative State
Scholarship once counted the raw number of executive orders (EOs) issued as a kind of proxy for presidential power; now it grapples with whether such directives are actually implemented, a challenging puzzle since agency action is difficult for scholars to systematically observe. This article addresses that difficulty by examining bureaucratic promulgation of a final rule responding to a given EO. To factors previously hypothesized to matter for …
Daniel W. Drezner
Not by the Numbers
We examine President Trump's use of administrative tools related to policy making—including executive orders, memoranda, proclamations, signing statements, and rulemaking—and compare him to presidents since Eisenhower. Overall, we find that Trump was not that different from his predecessors and from what theories of unilateral output predict—at least, not by the numbers. However, the content of his actions were noteworthy in two ways. First, the …
By Executive Order
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 proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. This book provides the first comprehensive look at how presidential directives are written — and by whom. The book examines more than five hundred executive orders from the 1930s to…
By Executive Order
The Law Pandemics and Presidential Power
Presidential power in a pandemic, as in other domestic crises, is largely a function of congressional delegation. A variety of statutes grant the president broad authority in times of emergency, including power over industrial production and quarantine power during outbreaks of communicable disease. Wide administrative discretion is spread across the U.S. Code more generally and may be implemented via executive order, regulations, or guidance doc…
New Data for Investigating the President’s Legislative Program
This article introduces two newly available sources of data on presidents’ legislative programs. The first consists of administration legislative initiatives cleared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for submission to Congress. We refer to these records as “OMB logs” because they record OMB’s clearance actions on executive‐branch legislative proposals. The second consists of memoranda, officially called Statements of Administration Pol…
Continuity Trumps Change
From campaign rhetoric to tweets, President Trump has positioned himself as “disrupter in chief,” often pointing to administrative action as the avenue by which he is leaving a lasting mark. However, research on the administrative presidency begins with the premise that all presidents face incentives to use administrative tools to gain substantive or political traction. If, as this article suggests, Trump’s institutional standing differs little f…
Beyond Structure and Process
With regulatory reform again on the presidential agenda, the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) provides a useful case study of organizational effectiveness. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan charged OIRA with imposing cost-benefit analysis on agency regulations, formalizing a new process of centralized regulatory review. But OIRA’s effectiveness flowed less from a single executive order than from the previous decad…
Investigating the President
Congress gets no respect. Scholars compete to condemn legislative inaction in the face of presidential expansionism, and for once the ivory tower is in tune with Main Street: public approval of the first branch was at 16 percent in a recent Gallup poll. Not so fast, say Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler, arguing that existing assessments of the balance of power between the branches has given “short shrift to congressional investigations” into …
Apsa Committees
The Committee on Teaching and Learning develops and promotes activities within APSA and the political science community regarding political science and the practices and policies of higher education, including undergraduate
The Contemporary Presidency
President Obama's iteration of the administrative presidency, as his term ended, used both extant tools and stressed new ones. This essay centers on three themes: (1) the array of managerial directives used, as a caution against simply counting executive orders to measure Obama's administrative efforts; (2) the central role of statutory interpretation to find power in extant law to justify presidential preferences in areas such as health care, en…
Executive Branch Management and Presidential Unilateralism
Despite the useful simplifying assumptions of recent work on unilateral power, archival analysis shows the issuance of executive orders is a process rife with transaction costs as presidents bargain with the bureaucracy over formulating their scope and substance. As a result, presidents must create what Williamson (1985) called "governance structures" to minimize those costs, with the Office of Management and Budget's clearance process at its hea…
The Letter of the Law
In his 2014 State of the Union address Barack Obama pledged to act without Congress on a variety of fronts, following up his “we can’t wait” campaign of unilateralism before the 2012 election. The partisan furor this engendered tended to obscure the longstanding efforts of presidents to “faithfully execute” the law in a manner that aligns with their policy preferences. This paper examines the broad logic of those efforts, and delineates five area…
Narrowcasting the Obama Presidency
In the United States we like to ‘rate’ a President,” Richard Neustadt observed. “We measure him as ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ and call what we are measuring his ‘leadership.’ We do not wait until a man is dead; we rate him from the moment he takes office.” Half a century later, that habit has been amplified and accelerated by an unending news cycle and the outsized demand for commentary across the online world. The polarizing figure of Barack Hussein Oba…
The Contemporary Presidency
How should we assess unilateral tactics and their contribution to presidential power in a less‐than‐unitary executive branch? To explore this question this article examines the provenance of nearly 300 executive orders from 1947 through 1987. Archival data show that executive orders are frequently a less‐than‐perfect representation of presidential preferences, despite the assumptions of recent work on unilateral power. That is, the issuance of ex…
A Majority is the Best Repartee”
Objective To trace the relationship between Barack Obama and Congress during his first term. Methods A largely qualitative review of the literature on presidential‐congressional relations and of Obama's interactions with Congress and the lessons he drew from them. Results Obama's practice, if not his rhetoric, shifted even before 2010 from an effort to transcend partisanship to using it to pass his legislative program. After the debt crisis negot…
Prospects for the New US Administration
A trans-Atlantic panel of social scientists addresses the question of what social science might offer the new President of the United States in various areas of policy and government action. Andrew Rudalevige's analysis of the scholarship on managing the presidency leads him to state that ‘most of the major happenings of the Bush years were essentially administrative in nature. That is likely to continue. Thus, how and whether presidents achieve …
The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood
Journal Article The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood Get access The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 240 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $25.99. Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Pages 511–513, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1…
Therefore, Get Wisdom”
The literature on the U.S. presidency offers analysis of how the presidential advice and information support function has been performed. Some studies go further to suggest certain principles for designing the advice‐ and information‐giving process involved in presidential decision making, along with organizational features to implement such principles. A well‐established principle, based on comparative case studies, is that presidents should ins…
The Administrative Presidency and Bureaucratic Control
As Richard Nathan pointed out in The Administrative Presidency 25 years ago, much contemporary policy making occurs through the execution of the laws and the management process. Thus, the conditions under which administrative power can be effectively exercised are important components of future research. In short, we must revisit an old question: Who controls the bureaucracy? This article sets out a research agenda for doing so by examining a set…
Presidents Creating the Presidency
Journal Article Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Get access Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Wordsby Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 384 pp. Cloth, $63.00; paper, $25.00. Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Presidential Secrecy and the Law
Presidential Secrecy and the Law. By Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 261p. $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Empirical work about governmental secrecy faces an obvious hurdle: The more extensive, thus worthy of analysis, that secrecy is, the less there is to analyze. Yet given recent events and their stakes—the potential that secrecy has for “destroying or undermining the legal, political, and …
The America that Reagan Built by J. David Woodard
Journal Article The America that Reagan Built by J. David Woodard Get access The America that Reagan Builtby J. David Woodard. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2006. 296pp. $49.95 Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 492–493, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01651.x Published: 25 M…
The Contemporary Presidency
How should we assess unilateral tactics and their contribution to presidential power in a less‐than‐unitary executive branch? To explore this question this article examines the provenance of nearly 300 executive orders from 1947 through 1987. Archival data show that executive orders are frequently a less‐than‐perfect representation of presidential preferences, despite the assumptions of recent work on unilateral power. That is, the issuance of ex…
By Executive Order
The Administrative Presidency and Bureaucratic Control
As Richard Nathan pointed out in The Administrative Presidency 25 years ago, much contemporary policy making occurs through the execution of the laws and the management process. Thus, the conditions under which administrative power can be effectively exercised are important components of future research. In short, we must revisit an old question: Who controls the bureaucracy? This article sets out a research agenda for doing so by examining a set…
Executive Branch Management and Presidential Unilateralism
Despite the useful simplifying assumptions of recent work on unilateral power, archival analysis shows the issuance of executive orders is a process rife with transaction costs as presidents bargain with the bureaucracy over formulating their scope and substance. As a result, presidents must create what Williamson (1985) called "governance structures" to minimize those costs, with the Office of Management and Budget's clearance process at its hea…
The Structure of Leadership
This article draws on various theories of organization and hierarchy to argue that presidential staff may be conceived as a necessary limiting structure on an otherwise chaotic informational environment. As such, the shape of that structure shapes the kind, caliber, and amount of information presidents receive on policy matters. Melding classic organization theory and recent formal work with earlier hypotheses about staff effectiveness, I argue t…
Presidents, Responsiveness, and Competence
MATTHEW J. DICKINSON is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College. His book, Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch, examines the origins of, and suggests reforms to, the presidential staff. ANDREW RUDALEVIGE is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College and a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. H…
Worked Out in Fractions
Presidents seem to scorn the “neutral competence” political scientists insist they need. Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45), however, evidently embraced this administrative approach–even at a time when the demands for presidential leadership were arguably greater than those experienced by any of his successors. Roosevelt thus offers an important historical test case for both critics and advocates of neutral competence. Focusing specifically on the Bure…
Not by the Numbers
We examine President Trump's use of administrative tools related to policy making—including executive orders, memoranda, proclamations, signing statements, and rulemaking—and compare him to presidents since Eisenhower. Overall, we find that Trump was not that different from his predecessors and from what theories of unilateral output predict—at least, not by the numbers. However, the content of his actions were noteworthy in two ways. First, the …
The Contemporary Presidency
The presidency was designed to have limited power, suspended in a series of checks and balances. But executive authority expanded dramatically over time. It took the presidential excesses of Vietnam and Watergate to prompt a legislative resurgence, a sequence bookended by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Imperial Presidency and James Sundquist's The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Yet even before September 11, assertive presidents and fragmen…
The Law Pandemics and Presidential Power
Presidential power in a pandemic, as in other domestic crises, is largely a function of congressional delegation. A variety of statutes grant the president broad authority in times of emergency, including power over industrial production and quarantine power during outbreaks of communicable disease. Wide administrative discretion is spread across the U.S. Code more generally and may be implemented via executive order, regulations, or guidance doc…
New Data for Investigating the President’s Legislative Program
This article introduces two newly available sources of data on presidents’ legislative programs. The first consists of administration legislative initiatives cleared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for submission to Congress. We refer to these records as “OMB logs” because they record OMB’s clearance actions on executive‐branch legislative proposals. The second consists of memoranda, officially called Statements of Administration Pol…
The Contemporary Presidency
President Obama's iteration of the administrative presidency, as his term ended, used both extant tools and stressed new ones. This essay centers on three themes: (1) the array of managerial directives used, as a caution against simply counting executive orders to measure Obama's administrative efforts; (2) the central role of statutory interpretation to find power in extant law to justify presidential preferences in areas such as health care, en…
The Letter of the Law
In his 2014 State of the Union address Barack Obama pledged to act without Congress on a variety of fronts, following up his “we can’t wait” campaign of unilateralism before the 2012 election. The partisan furor this engendered tended to obscure the longstanding efforts of presidents to “faithfully execute” the law in a manner that aligns with their policy preferences. This paper examines the broad logic of those efforts, and delineates five area…
A Majority is the Best Repartee”
Objective To trace the relationship between Barack Obama and Congress during his first term. Methods A largely qualitative review of the literature on presidential‐congressional relations and of Obama's interactions with Congress and the lessons he drew from them. Results Obama's practice, if not his rhetoric, shifted even before 2010 from an effort to transcend partisanship to using it to pass his legislative program. After the debt crisis negot…
Implementing Executive Orders in the Administrative State
Scholarship once counted the raw number of executive orders (EOs) issued as a kind of proxy for presidential power; now it grapples with whether such directives are actually implemented, a challenging puzzle since agency action is difficult for scholars to systematically observe. This article addresses that difficulty by examining bureaucratic promulgation of a final rule responding to a given EO. To factors previously hypothesized to matter for …
Continuity Trumps Change
From campaign rhetoric to tweets, President Trump has positioned himself as “disrupter in chief,” often pointing to administrative action as the avenue by which he is leaving a lasting mark. However, research on the administrative presidency begins with the premise that all presidents face incentives to use administrative tools to gain substantive or political traction. If, as this article suggests, Trump’s institutional standing differs little f…
Beyond Structure and Process
With regulatory reform again on the presidential agenda, the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) provides a useful case study of organizational effectiveness. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan charged OIRA with imposing cost-benefit analysis on agency regulations, formalizing a new process of centralized regulatory review. But OIRA’s effectiveness flowed less from a single executive order than from the previous decad…
Narrowcasting the Obama Presidency
In the United States we like to ‘rate’ a President,” Richard Neustadt observed. “We measure him as ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ and call what we are measuring his ‘leadership.’ We do not wait until a man is dead; we rate him from the moment he takes office.” Half a century later, that habit has been amplified and accelerated by an unending news cycle and the outsized demand for commentary across the online world. The polarizing figure of Barack Hussein Oba…
Therefore, Get Wisdom”
The literature on the U.S. presidency offers analysis of how the presidential advice and information support function has been performed. Some studies go further to suggest certain principles for designing the advice‐ and information‐giving process involved in presidential decision making, along with organizational features to implement such principles. A well‐established principle, based on comparative case studies, is that presidents should ins…
Revisiting Midterm Loss
The phenomenon of midterm loss—the drop in the midterm congressional vote for the president's party from its level 2 years prior—is more than a century old and counting. Some see this as a predictable referendum on the president's performance to date. Others argue that the referendum model does not hold up over time; still others, using survey data, find scant evidence for “pocketbook” voting in congressional elections. The data in this article e…
Revisiting Midterm Loss
Managing the President's Program
Presidents, Responsiveness, and Competence
MATTHEW J. DICKINSON is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College. His book, Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch, examines the origins of, and suggests reforms to, the presidential staff. ANDREW RUDALEVIGE is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College and a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. H…
The New Imperial Presidency
Has the imperial presidency returned? "Well written and, while indispensable for college courses, should appeal beyond academic audiences to anyone interested in how well we govern ourselves. . . . I cannot help regarding it as a grand sequel for my own The Imperial Presidency." ---Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Has the imperial presidency returned? This question has been on the minds of many contemporary political observers, as recent American administ…
The Structure of Leadership
This article draws on various theories of organization and hierarchy to argue that presidential staff may be conceived as a necessary limiting structure on an otherwise chaotic informational environment. As such, the shape of that structure shapes the kind, caliber, and amount of information presidents receive on policy matters. Melding classic organization theory and recent formal work with earlier hypotheses about staff effectiveness, I argue t…
The Contemporary Presidency
The presidency was designed to have limited power, suspended in a series of checks and balances. But executive authority expanded dramatically over time. It took the presidential excesses of Vietnam and Watergate to prompt a legislative resurgence, a sequence bookended by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Imperial Presidency and James Sundquist's The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Yet even before September 11, assertive presidents and fragmen…
The New Imperial Presidency
The America that Reagan Built by J. David Woodard
Journal Article The America that Reagan Built by J. David Woodard Get access The America that Reagan Builtby J. David Woodard. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2006. 296pp. $49.95 Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 492–493, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01651.x Published: 25 M…
Worked Out in Fractions
Presidents seem to scorn the “neutral competence” political scientists insist they need. Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45), however, evidently embraced this administrative approach–even at a time when the demands for presidential leadership were arguably greater than those experienced by any of his successors. Roosevelt thus offers an important historical test case for both critics and advocates of neutral competence. Focusing specifically on the Bure…
Presidential Secrecy and the Law
Presidential Secrecy and the Law. By Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 261p. $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Empirical work about governmental secrecy faces an obvious hurdle: The more extensive, thus worthy of analysis, that secrecy is, the less there is to analyze. Yet given recent events and their stakes—the potential that secrecy has for “destroying or undermining the legal, political, and …
Therefore, Get Wisdom”
The literature on the U.S. presidency offers analysis of how the presidential advice and information support function has been performed. Some studies go further to suggest certain principles for designing the advice‐ and information‐giving process involved in presidential decision making, along with organizational features to implement such principles. A well‐established principle, based on comparative case studies, is that presidents should ins…
The Administrative Presidency and Bureaucratic Control
As Richard Nathan pointed out in The Administrative Presidency 25 years ago, much contemporary policy making occurs through the execution of the laws and the management process. Thus, the conditions under which administrative power can be effectively exercised are important components of future research. In short, we must revisit an old question: Who controls the bureaucracy? This article sets out a research agenda for doing so by examining a set…
Presidents Creating the Presidency
Journal Article Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Get access Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Wordsby Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 384 pp. Cloth, $63.00; paper, $25.00. Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Prospects for the New US Administration
A trans-Atlantic panel of social scientists addresses the question of what social science might offer the new President of the United States in various areas of policy and government action. Andrew Rudalevige's analysis of the scholarship on managing the presidency leads him to state that ‘most of the major happenings of the Bush years were essentially administrative in nature. That is likely to continue. Thus, how and whether presidents achieve …
The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood
Journal Article The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood Get access The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 240 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $25.99. Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Pages 511–513, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1…
The Contemporary Presidency
How should we assess unilateral tactics and their contribution to presidential power in a less‐than‐unitary executive branch? To explore this question this article examines the provenance of nearly 300 executive orders from 1947 through 1987. Archival data show that executive orders are frequently a less‐than‐perfect representation of presidential preferences, despite the assumptions of recent work on unilateral power. That is, the issuance of ex…
A Majority is the Best Repartee”
Objective To trace the relationship between Barack Obama and Congress during his first term. Methods A largely qualitative review of the literature on presidential‐congressional relations and of Obama's interactions with Congress and the lessons he drew from them. Results Obama's practice, if not his rhetoric, shifted even before 2010 from an effort to transcend partisanship to using it to pass his legislative program. After the debt crisis negot…
Narrowcasting the Obama Presidency
In the United States we like to ‘rate’ a President,” Richard Neustadt observed. “We measure him as ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ and call what we are measuring his ‘leadership.’ We do not wait until a man is dead; we rate him from the moment he takes office.” Half a century later, that habit has been amplified and accelerated by an unending news cycle and the outsized demand for commentary across the online world. The polarizing figure of Barack Hussein Oba…
The Letter of the Law
In his 2014 State of the Union address Barack Obama pledged to act without Congress on a variety of fronts, following up his “we can’t wait” campaign of unilateralism before the 2012 election. The partisan furor this engendered tended to obscure the longstanding efforts of presidents to “faithfully execute” the law in a manner that aligns with their policy preferences. This paper examines the broad logic of those efforts, and delineates five area…
Executive Branch Management and Presidential Unilateralism
Despite the useful simplifying assumptions of recent work on unilateral power, archival analysis shows the issuance of executive orders is a process rife with transaction costs as presidents bargain with the bureaucracy over formulating their scope and substance. As a result, presidents must create what Williamson (1985) called "governance structures" to minimize those costs, with the Office of Management and Budget's clearance process at its hea…
Apsa Committees
The Committee on Teaching and Learning develops and promotes activities within APSA and the political science community regarding political science and the practices and policies of higher education, including undergraduate
The Contemporary Presidency
President Obama's iteration of the administrative presidency, as his term ended, used both extant tools and stressed new ones. This essay centers on three themes: (1) the array of managerial directives used, as a caution against simply counting executive orders to measure Obama's administrative efforts; (2) the central role of statutory interpretation to find power in extant law to justify presidential preferences in areas such as health care, en…
Beyond Structure and Process
With regulatory reform again on the presidential agenda, the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) provides a useful case study of organizational effectiveness. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan charged OIRA with imposing cost-benefit analysis on agency regulations, formalizing a new process of centralized regulatory review. But OIRA’s effectiveness flowed less from a single executive order than from the previous decad…
Investigating the President
Congress gets no respect. Scholars compete to condemn legislative inaction in the face of presidential expansionism, and for once the ivory tower is in tune with Main Street: public approval of the first branch was at 16 percent in a recent Gallup poll. Not so fast, say Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler, arguing that existing assessments of the balance of power between the branches has given “short shrift to congressional investigations” into …
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