<i>The Contemporary Presidency</i>: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late‐Term Patterns

Rudalevige, Andrew

doi:10.1111/psq.12323

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“…The Obama administration's practice with respect to many memo orders is consistent with the notion that the administration is seeking to shape and control, not avoid, publicity (Turley ; Rudalevige ). The Obama administration's “We can't wait” campaign identified over 40 “executive actions … to support middle class Americans” in 2011 and 2012 .…”

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The Contemporary Presidency: Do Presidential Memo Orders Substitute for Executive Orders? New Data

Woolley¹,

Peters²

2017

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We describe and implement a text-search strategy for reliably identifying, among published presidential documents, orders not titled "executive order" or "proclamation." Given the inconsistent use of terms and titles in these documents, we refer to them with an umbrella term: "memo orders." We identify over 1,600 memo orders in the archives of the American Presidency Project (APP) from 1977 to 2012. Drawing on the Federal Register for the same period, we find additional orders not in the APP archives. This produces a comprehensive estimate of the total number of published presidential orders from 1977 to 2012. We further apply our strategy to presidential signing statements from 1985 to 2008 and estimate that around 10% can be considered to include presidential orders.

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confidence: 61%

“…As scholars we face an even greater challenge to integrate the questions about forms of presidential directives into a broader understanding of what has come to be called executive action. This broader conception includes uses of executive discretion directed by the president but not located in the presidency itself (Rudalevige ).…”

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The Contemporary Presidency: Do Presidential Memo Orders Substitute for Executive Orders? New Data

Woolley¹,

Peters²

2017

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“…In both cases, Obama believed that existing congressional statutes gave him the legal discretion to act. He also believed that the courts rightly had the authority to overturn his actions if they decided his interpretations of the law were wrong (Rudalevige, 2016a(Rudalevige, , 2016b. These are not the actions of a UET president who is threatening democracy.…”

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The strongman presidency and the two logics of presidential power

Howell

Moe

2023

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The strongman presidency presents an acute threat to democracy. Two logics underpin its emergence, both of which implicate the administrative state. Under the first, presidents have sought to deploy the vast resources of the administrative state in pursuit of power and legacy. This logic is symmetric, shaping the behavior of Republican and Democratic presidents alike. The second logic, however, sets them apart. Because most of the administrative state is the embodiment of progressive values, Democratic presidents have approached presidential power in ways that are largely compatible with its well‐being, whereas Republican presidents have laid claim to increasingly extreme powers in order to retrench and sabotage it. Layered on the first, this asymmetric logic is the main driver of the strongman presidency—and, ultimately, a major threat to American democracy.

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“…The climate, and more broadly environmental, agenda of the Obama administration began with a focus on legislative action. Once legislative pathways were blocked after Republicans took control of the House in 2010, the Obama administration shifted focus to managing policy change through the bureaucracy, and defending it in court (Rudalevige, 2016a). Among the first steps was recalibrating Bush‐era rules through executive action in order to more aggressively apply environmental regulations to air and water pollution, including the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act (CAA).…”

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Administration, rhetoric, and climate policy in the Obama presidency

Jones

Fowler

2022

Review of Policy Research

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Among the most well‐known traits of the Obama presidency are his rhetorical skills and reliance on administrative action to push forward policy in the face of an unresponsive Congress. This is particularly notable for climate change, where Obama used the tools of the administrative presidency to make policy and rhetoric to build public support for these actions. To this end, the authors examine how President Obama rhetorically constructed and rationalized his use of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement federal climate change regulations via the federal Clean Power Plan. The authors use a rhetorical analysis to examine President Obama's speeches from 2009 through 2015 that explicitly or implicitly reference climate change, greenhouse gases, and the Clean Power Plan, but also related topics, such as energy policy and climate agreements. The authors find that Obama relied on polysemy and the locus of irreparable in his speeches to sale the urgent need for administrative action on climate change. Conclusions suggest that the use of rhetoric and administrative action from the White House are key to how federal climate policy has been constructed in the U.S.

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The Contemporary Presidency: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late‐Term Patterns

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

The Contemporary Presidency: Do Presidential Memo Orders Substitute for Executive Orders? New Data

The Contemporary Presidency: Do Presidential Memo Orders Substitute for Executive Orders? New Data

The strongman presidency and the two logics of presidential power

Administration, rhetoric, and climate policy in the Obama presidency

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