![]() | Managing the President''s Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation Subjects: Presidents -- United States; Political leadership -- United States; Political planning -- United States; United States. Congress; The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all certain nor necessary for policy promotion. In Managing the President's Program , he presents a far more complex and interesting picture of the use of presidential staff. Drawing on transaction cost theory, Rudalevige constructs a framework of "contingent centralization" to predict when presidents will use White House and/or departmental staff resources for policy formulation. He backs his assertions through an unprecedented quantitative analysis of a new data set of policy proposals covering almost fifty years of the postwar era from Truman to Clinton. Andrew Rudalevige is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. |
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