Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
ISBN: 9780812208153
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Political Science;

Graham G. Dodds explores the constitutional and historical development of unilateral presidential directives--the ability of presidents to bypass the legislative process and set public policy via their own executive orders--and how such a practice fits Americans' conception of democracy.


Graham G. Dodds is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.
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