Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xv
5. 1. “On My Own”? Executive Orders and the Executive Branch 1
6. 2. Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Presidential Management and Unilateral Policy Formulation 25
7. 3. Executive Orders: Structure and Process 49
8. 4. Executive Orders: Birds, Bees, and Data 76
9. 5. Testing Presidential Management: The Conditions of Centralization 110
10. 6. A Brief History of Time (to Issuance) 139
11. 7. “Dear John”: The Orders That Never Were 166
12. 8. Incorrigibly Plural: Concluding Thoughts and Next Steps 201
13. A Note on Sources 221
14. Notes 223
15. Selected References 281
16. Index 291