Assessing the Trump White House

Hult, Karen M.

doi:10.1111/psq.12700

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“…Rather than looking at transformationalist leadership, we could instead weigh leaders against their stated goals. In evaluating Trump, Hult (2021) uses the administration's stated goals as benchmarks to argue that the accomplishments included boosting conservative power on the federal courts and moving away from multilateral international relations. But the administration failed to bring about deregulatory policies that it hoped to pass and led to a decline in presidential capacity and trust in government.…”

Section: Measuring Presidential Policy Impactmentioning

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Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework

James¹

2022

The Trump Administration

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How should political leaders be evaluated? This article reviews existing approaches and argues that they are insufficiently developed to map the more complex policy effects of political leaders, since they tend to focus on electoral and broader regime level outcomes. In response, it maps out a layered framework based on scientific realism. The layered approach argues that analysis should focus on the effects of leaders within societal structures, formal political institutions, the framing of policy problems as well as policy. The approach requires that we are sensitive to the structure and agency relationships between layers when identifying where leaders brought about policy and political change, as well as the effects on the international system and on other polities. It is proposed that the new approach will help to develop a more complete and nuanced understanding of the policy effects of leaders that will uncover their effects in hidden spaces, as well as broader societal shifts.

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Section: Measuring Presidential Policy Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework

James¹

2022

The Trump Administration

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“…Despite this, scholars have struggled to assess Trump's performance as president. Whilst it is logical to judge presidential success by their ability to fulfil their stated objectives, comparing Trump's actions solely to his articulated aims, as exemplified by Karen M. Hult, is ill-suited for a president who was consistently inarticulate on policy details, let alone aims (Hult 2021;James 2021). Trump's lack of policies was evident in how in 2020, the Republican National Convention "had no platform to pass, something that had not occurred since the party ran its first candidate in 1856," leaving them to rely on their platform from 2016, representing a litany of promises that remained unfulfilled (Edwards III 2021).…”

Section: Measuring Presidential Success In Legislative Leadershipmentioning

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Trump and Congress

Smith

2021

Policy Studies

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In examining Donald Trump's presidential leadership, this article focuses on determining his efficacy as a political leader evident through three critical turning points in his presidency. His presidency began with a key legislative defeat, followed by a rare policy victory and in 2019, he controversially shutdown the government in a failed attempt to gain congressional funding for the US-Mexico border wall. By comparing the GOP attempt to reform healthcare with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, this article demonstrates how Republican legislative success relied upon a unified approach between Congress and the White House, with clear, long-established policy goals. Analysis of the longest government shutdown in US history provides insight into Trump's leadership style, presidential power and relationship with Congress. In all three cases, Trump's rhetoric failed to effectively support Republican policy efforts or convince Americans that their course of action was best. Indeed, Trump's rhetoric and actions often proved more contradictory and damaging to Republican efforts and to the overall future of the party. This article concludes that Trump inexperience and character was illequipped to be an effective political leader, evident in his few legislative achievements and the toxic environment of hyperpartisanship he left behind.

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“…Although the formal position of chief of staff and the office existed throughout the Trump term, its occupants rarely had the authority or longevity of many of their predecessors (Cohen and Hult 2020). Moreover, despite the differences in temperament, personality, and relationship with the president among the four chiefs of staff, each coped with a demanding White House setting—including a politically inexperienced and mercurial President, strong‐minded and fractious colleagues, ubiquitous leaking to the media, and frequent turnover (Hult 2021).…”

Section: The Trump White Housementioning

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Enabling POTUS: Mark Meadows as Donald Trump's Last Chief of Staff

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Hult²

2021

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Through the lens of past scholarship on White House structuring and staffing, we analyze the performance of Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump's final chief of staff. We examine the major roles performed by chiefs of staff and their offices, exploring their participation in management and in policy processes. Probing the roles, activities, and performance of Meadows and his Trump administration predecessors underscores the variation among chiefs of staff under the same president and, more importantly, the significance of individual presidents and chiefs of staff for governing.

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Assessing the Trump White House

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework

Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework

Trump and Congress

Enabling POTUS: Mark Meadows as Donald Trump's Last Chief of Staff

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