I Alone Can Fix It’ Donald Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Hazards of Executive-Centered Partisanship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13058367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney M Milki (0000-0003-3413-6398, University of Virginia, corresponding author), Nicholas F Jacobs (0000-0002-3787-6925, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-613 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2194-6183 • E-ISSN: 1540-8884 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/for-2017-0037 |
| OpenAlex | W2767744035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 14 |
Eight months into his presidency, most depict the Trump administration as being mired in chaos and frenzy. Such a perspective, however, overlooks the aggressive pursuit of Trump’s campaign agenda through unilateral administrative action. Far from “deconstructing the administrative state” as promised, Trump has embraced the levers of presidential discretion and power inherent within the modern executive office. Although Trump cannot lay claim to any major legislative achievement early in his presidency, we argue that there is plenty he can take credit – or blame – for in fulfilling his campaign promises. Moreover, far from using administrative power to simply roll back his predecessor’s programmatic goals, the new president has sought to redeploy state resources in ways that will further entrench traditional commitments of the Republican Party, while simultaneously redefining them to mirror the president’s personal policy objectives. This is not a new development. Rather it is the culmination of a decades-long reorientation within both major parties: the rise of an executive centered party-system. As such, Trump – despite his seeming idiosyncrasies – might further reinforce the centrality of executive actions as a way to overcome both parties’ institutional weakness and ideological polarization
Administration (probate law · Discretion · Ideology · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presidency · Presidential system · Sociology · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
Bringing The “Ring” Back In
Affective Representation in Congress
Party Domination and Base Mobilization
The Institutionalization of State Resistance to Federal Directives in the 21st Century
Executive Absolutism
I’ll Be the Oversight”
The Law
Present at the Destruction
Politicians, regulators, and regulatory governance
Building a Conservative State
Policy-making by tweets
Administration, rhetoric, and climate policy in the Obama presidency
The personal president
The Policy State
We Can’t Wait”
Ideas, Institutions, and the New Deal Constitutional Order
Barack Obama, Organizing for Action, and Executive-Centered Partisanship
Presidents as Agents of Change
Thinking Institutionally
George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the “New” American Party System
What Happened to Post-Partisanship? Barack Obama and the New American Party System
Accomplished and Embattled
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |