Contrary to stylized accounts of policy making in democracies, it is routine for presidents,
governors, and other chief executives to issue directives such as decrees and executive …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the
nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars …

"'Cyber security'is a recent addition to the global security agenda, concerned with protecting
states and citizens from the misuse of computer networks for war, terrorism, economic …

To advance their policy agenda, presidents have two options. They can submit proposals to
Congress and hope that its members faithfully shepherd bills into laws; or they can exercise …

This article develops a theory of presidential unilateralism in which both ideological
divergence with Congress and legislative capacity influence the president's use of executive …

Throughout American history, presidents have shown a startling power to act independently
of Congress and the courts. On their own initiative, presidents have taken the country to war …

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bureaucratic management and the limits of presidential power andrew rudalevige prince ton …

The formal institutional constraints that Congress and the courts impose on presidential
unilateral action are feeble. As a result, recent scholarship suggests that public opinion may …

How should we assess unilateral tactics and their contribution to presidential power in a less‐
than‐unitary executive branch? To explore this question this article examines the …