Strategic Factors Influencing the Issuance and Duration of Executive Orders
Description:
Executive orders are a significant source of presidential power although scholars disagree on the nature of that power. It has been argued that executive orders are an indication of a president's failure to persuade others to act as he desires; others contend that executive orders offer "power without persuasion." This dissertation introduces the conditional model of executive order issuance and duration in order to offer a synthesis to these competing views, and to offer a better understandi…
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Date:
August 2008
Creator:
Steele, Galen
Partner:
UNT Libraries