Title: <i>Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism</i>, by Frank J. Thompson, Kenneth K. Wong, and Barry G. Rabe
Abstract: There is no doubt that scholars of the American presidency and public policy will have a lot of material to unpack in the coming years to assess the Donald Trump administration. This new book by Frank Thompson, Kenneth Wong, and Barry Rabe provides one of the first scholarly books on President Trump’s use of the administrative presidency to circumvent the legislative process in order to pursue his public policy agenda. However, the main contribution of this book is that the authors go much further by analyzing the intersection of Trump’s administrative presidency and American federalism. Most studies on the administrative presidency tend to focus on the policy actions of the president at the federal level with little attention given to the role of state and local governments. This book begins to fill this gap that exists in the scholarly literature. Thompson, Wong, and Rabe focus their analysis on President Trump’s...
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
Language: en
Type: article
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