Historical Set Points and the Development of U.S. Presidential Emergency Power

Tichenor, Daniel J.

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“…However, more important than the acknowledgment of the uses of national emergencies in policy making is understanding how presidents interpret their statutory authorities to declare an emergency. In his discussion of the historical developments in the president's emergency powers over time, Tichenor (2013) notes that we need to better understand presidential leadership during times of crises by paying closer attention to the sources of constraints and opportunities for presidents to act. Our article takes up this challenge by providing the results of a pilot project that assesses how political conditions impact the content of presidential decisions on national emergencies.…”

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The Contemporary Presidency: How Presidents Utilize Their Emergency Powers

Yu¹,

Morgan²

2019

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What explains how presidents utilize their emergency powers? In the recent political battle with Congress over the U.S.–Mexico border, President Donald Trump announced his willingness to invoke his emergency powers to construct the controversial wall if Congress continued to oppose his decisions. While his action was met with strong, mostly partisan responses, the declaration of national emergencies to fulfill policy objectives is not unique to the Trump administration. Building on the unilateral presidency literature, we report the results of a pilot project on how the political environment impacts the use of national emergencies in U.S. foreign policy. Results add to our understanding of a current political debate and to a broader comprehension of presidential emergency powers.

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The Contemporary Presidency: How Presidents Utilize Their Emergency Powers

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Morgan²

2019

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“…Однако в большинстве случаев крайние меры не были поддержаны Верховным судом. Показательным примером, приводимым зарубежными авторами (Tichenor, 2013), является ситуация, когда в условиях Корейской войны правительство США придерживалось правовой позиции о широких полномочиях президента Г. Трумэна и оправдывало его действия по захвату сталелитейных заводов для предотвращения забастовок в период. Однако Верховный суд в решении по делу Янгстоун против Сойера 1952 г. признал действия Президента незаконными: «Конституция не предусматривала, что должность Главнокомандующего армией и флотом будет означать, что он также КОНСТИТУЦИОННОЕ И МУНИЦИПАЛЬНОЕ ПРАВО будет являться Главнокомандующим страной, ее промышленностью и жителями», а «власть, которую президент хотел реализовать является законотворческой, которой Конституция наделяет только Конгресс, как в благоприятные, так и в неблагоприятные времена» 10 .…”

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United States of America and the pandemic: issues of legal regulation in combating COVID-19

Latypova

2023

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Ûrid. nauki

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The pandemic period in the United States has become a test of the strength of many state mechanisms, raised the question of the limits of the extraordinary powers of the President and governors and effectiveness of the public health system. The reasons why one of the most prosperous countries in the world has become the most affected state by the pandemic largely lie in the sphere of public administration system and historically established precedents for expanding the powers of the executive branch in times of emergency. The aim of the study is to identify the foundations of constitutional and legal regulation in combating the consequences of the pandemic in the United States and to trace correlations between peculiarities of distribution of powers in the field of public security and effectiveness of measures to counter the COVID-19 spread. One of the tasks is to identify both advantages and disadvantages of the US political structure in the context of countering the nationwide threat. The historical method of research allowed to determine the specifics of the extraordinary powers of the US President, while the specific legal method was used as the basis for analyzing the structure and powers of legislative and executive authorities along with comparative legal, system-structural and functional approaches. In the fight against the pandemic, the mechanism of public administration in the United States has shown its inability to counter threats of a nationwide nature. In many ways, this situation is explained by peculiarities of the legislative regulation of the healthcare sector, transferred to the autonomous regulation of state authorities, a disparate system of legal regulation of emergency response, as well as the very modest capabilities of the head of state in responding to epidemiological threats. The study allows to conclude that there is a correlation between the features of the public administration system in the United States, its legislative regulation and the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by uncoordinated actions of federal and regional government authorities.

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“… 4 See, e.g., Collier and Lakoff 2015; Neocleous 2008; Roberts 2013; Saldin 2011; Tichenor 2013; Unger 2012. …”

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“… 38 See Ackerman 2006, 2010; Balkin and Levinson 2006; Goldsmith 2007; Levinson and Balkin 2010; Neocleous 2008, ch. 2; Posner 2006; Tichenor 2013; Yoo 2005. …”

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Models of Emergency Statebuilding in the United States

Curley¹

2015

Perspect. polit.

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Over the last decade, the impact of emergencies on the American state has become the subject of renewed interest. While early literature in the post-9/11 era often overlooked the historical development of crisis governance in the United States, many scholars have begun to uncover the precedents that continue to shape modern emergency management. In an effort to clarify the main analytical assumptions of the existing scholarship, I construct three models of emergency statebuilding: permanent emergency state, national security state, and contract state. The models each share an underlying framework of historical institutionalism, which defines the state as a stabilized material institutional structure that is disrupted by emergency conditions—exogenous shocks that cannot be incorporated into the normal statebuilding processes or legal order. Yet this perspective is ill-equipped to explain institutional change. I propose discursive institutionalism as an approach that emphasizes how discourse and ideas construct emergencies as objects of government management—in different ways, at different times. I then illustrate the utility of this perspective by demonstrating the influence of national planning ideas on efforts to prepare the state for emergencies before they occur.

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Historical Set Points and the Development of U.S. Presidential Emergency Power

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The Contemporary Presidency: How Presidents Utilize Their Emergency Powers

The Contemporary Presidency: How Presidents Utilize Their Emergency Powers

United States of America and the pandemic: issues of legal regulation in combating COVID-19

Models of Emergency Statebuilding in the United States

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