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The President, Congress, and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics
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The article was published on 1984-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inherent powers & Constitution.read more
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Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers
David Epstein,Sharyn O'Halloran +1 more
TL;DR: The first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches was proposed by Epstein and O'Halloran as discussed by the authors, who examined major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992 and described the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy.
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The presidential power of unilateral action
Terry M. Moe,William G. Howell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that presidents have incentives to push this ambiguity relentlessly to expand their own powers and that, for reasons rooted in the nature of their institutions, neither Congress nor the courts are likely to stop them.
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Foreign Policy and Presidential Popularity: Creating Windows of Opportunity in the Perpetual Election
TL;DR: Variations in public support for the president have been explained in three different ways as mentioned in this paper, i.e., approval has been viewed as controlled by the law of inevitable decline, and public support ha...
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The Contemporary Presidency: The Decline and Resurgence and Decline (and Resurgence?) of Congress: Charting a New Imperial Presidency
TL;DR: The question "How Much Power Should They Have?" was posed by Newsweek as 2006 began, as President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney glared out from underneath the headline as mentioned in this paper.
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Notes on the Presidency in the Political Order
TL;DR: The American presidency reflects nothing so clearly as the idiosyncrasies of personality and circumstance as mentioned in this paper, which makes thematic analysis of the presidency peculiarly dependent on uncovering broad-ranging patterns in institutional history.