The Politics of Executive Orders
Legislative Constraints on Presidential Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher J Deering, Forrest Maltzman (George Washington University) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 767 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/449185 |
| OpenAlex | W4255126366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 90 |
| References cited | 37 |
Conventional wisdom suggests that Presidents use executive orders, sometimes characterized as presidential legislation, when legislation is too difficult to pass (in the face of an opposition Congress, for example) or when executive departments or agencies tend to embrace their congressional patrons, rather than the White House. According to this model, executive orders are strategic instruments used by a President to circumvent the constitutionally prescribed policymaking process. Recently studies have found little systematic evidence that executive orders are used to circumvent a hostile Congress. We argue that strategic Presidents do use executive orders to circumvent a hostile Congress, but not if they are likely to be overtumed by Congress. In other words, the use of executive orders reflects both their ability to achieve and to maintain preferred changes to the policy status quo. We test this portrait of presidential decision-making by examining determinants of the annual variation in the number of executive orders issued during the post-World War II period
Economics · Executive branch · Executive order · Executive power · Law and economics · Legislation · Legislature · Opposition (politics · Order (exchange · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presidential system · Separation of powers · Status quo · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration
Executives—The American Presidency
The presidential power of unilateral action
The Cuba-U.S. Bilateral Relationship
Quitting in Protest
Showing Off
Going it Alone
The Use of Executive Orders and Proclamations to Create Immigration Policy
Testing Structural Explanations for U.S. Military Intervention
Who do you trust? Presidential delegation in executive orders
The President’s Immigration Executive Actions
The Effects of Polarization on Ideological Certainty
Presidential References to Executive Actions in Public Comments on Supreme Court Cases
Unilateralism as a Strategic Public Relations Tool
Avoiding Advice and Consent
Presidential Decision Making and Minority Nominations to the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Circumventing Adversity
Implementing Executive Orders in the Administrative State
The A merican Presidency and the Power of the Purchaser
Administrative Politics and the Public Presidency
What's So Sinister about Presidential Signing Statements
Unilateral Action and Presidential Power
Executive Orders Under Judicial Scrutiny
Landmark Executive Orders
The Law
Unilateral Presidential Powers
The Historical Presidency Unilateral Politics in the Traditional Era
Unilateral Orders as Constituency Outreach
The President and International Commitments
Counterfactuals and the Study of the American Presidency
The President, the Court, and Policy Implementation
The Contemporary Presidency After the Orders
Not by the Numbers
Unilateral Powers
An Informal and Limited Alliance”
The Historical Presidency
The Contemporary Presidency
The Last Word
Symposium on Policy Making, Accountability, and Executive Action
Measuring the Content of Presidential Policy Making
The Contemporary Presidency
Response and Diversion
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
Unilateral Action and Presidential Accountability
The Limits to Power without Persuasion
The Changing Nature of Presidential Policy Making on International Agreements
Political control and policy-making uncertainty in executive orders
Presidential unilateral action
Pivotal Politics as Normal Science
The effect of public attitudes toward the European Union on European Commission policy activity
Tall, Grande, or Venti
New Data and New Directions in Interbranch Lobbying
Concentrated Powers
Ignoring Advice and Consent? The Uses of Judicial Recess Appointments
In Lieu of Legislation
Between Two Fires
The Politics of Requesting Appointments
Gendered Opportunities and Constraints
The Power of Decree
The Right Tool for the Job
I’m Not the President of Black America
Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism in Separation of Powers Systems
Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism
Presidential action and the Supreme Court
Gubernatorial use of executive orders
Presidential Unilateral Power
To Revoke or Not Revoke? The Political Determinants of Executive Order Longevity
Divided Government, Strategic Substitution, and Presidential Unilateralism
Constitutional Qualms or Politics as Usual? The Factors Shaping Public Support for Unilateral Action
Congress and Administrative Policymaking
Legislative Capacity and Executive Unilateralism
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas
The Public Cost of Unilateral Action
The Elusive Search for Presidential Power
Constrained Presidential Power in Africa? Legislative Independence and Executive Rule Making in Kenya, 1963–2013
Assessing the Unilateral Presidency
The Politics of Presidential Speeches
Updating Presidential Leverage
Power Plus Persuasion
Executive Branch Management and Presidential Unilateralism
Public Outreach, Executive Orders, and the Unilateral Presidency
Checking Executive Power
Agency Characteristics and the Use of Executive Orders
Policymaking by the Executive
Revisiting the Two Presidencies
Reexamining the Use of Unilateral Orders
Exercising Unilateral Discretion
Proclaiming Trade Policy
Assessing President Obama's climate change record
Does Public Opinion Constrain Presidential Unilateralism
The president in the legislative arena
Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House
Congressmen's Voting Decisions
Information and Legislative Organization
Presidential Use of Executive Orders, 1953-1994
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents
Pivotal Politics
By Order of the President
On the Edge
Follow the Leader
Variance Specification in Event Count Models
Decrees, Laws, and Inter-Branch Relations in the Russian Federation
Unorthodox lawmaking
When Congress and the President Collide
The Structure of Presidential Approval
Executive Orders and Presidential Power
Divided We Govern? A Reassessment
Economics, politics, and the cycle of presidential popularity
Cosponsors and Wafflers from A to Z
The Institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92
The Legislative Impact of Divided Government
Macroeconomic Conditions and Fluctuations of Presidential Popularity
Patterns of Congressional Voting
The Population Ecology of Gucci Gulch, or the Natural Regulation of Interest Group Numbers in the American States
Where's the Party
Needed
Presidential Influence in the Policymaking Process
| Unique citing works | 89 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 90 |