Policy Disruption Through Regulatory Delay in the Trump Administration

Thrower, Sharece

doi:10.1111/psq.12473

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“…Four basic observations support this interpretation. First, while the Trump administration was able, in its initial months in office, to repeal recently promulgated regulations of the Obama era, empirical evidence shows that not every recent regulation was deleted – and that organizational factors account for this finding (Thrower 2018). A second observation is that although Trump's administration greatly reduced the “flow” of new regulations, it “barely scratched the surface” of the “stock” of existing ones (Dooling 2019).…”

Section: The Regulatory Politics That Principals Makementioning

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Politicians, regulators, and regulatory governance: The neglected sides of the story

Benoît

2021

Regulation & Governance

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We offer a series of reflective insights about the state and direction of studies related to the politics of regulation. Notably we argue that the field is characterized by persisting divisions between Americanists and Europeanists. Largely focused on the actions taken by political principals, the former regularly report a substantial politicization of regulatory behavior. Reflecting on recent developments in US politics however, we show that political influence could be overestimated in the United States. Symmetrically, this same influence could be underestimated by Europeanists, who for now have largely focused on regulators and agencies. This is notably suggested by a discussion of recent development in European politics, as revealed by contributions systematically measuring agency politicization in Western European democracies. On this basis, we identify some promising research questions and agendas for future studies on the politics of regulation.

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Section: The Regulatory Politics That Principals Makementioning

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Politicians, regulators, and regulatory governance: The neglected sides of the story

Benoît

2021

Regulation & Governance

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“…Nonetheless, and despite the practice of past presidents and the hopes of President Trump's supporters, he has largely neglected his responsibility to lead the executive branch. He has assumed a posture as president but not chief executive (Bernhard et al 2018; for a discussion of continuity, see, however, Potter et al 2019; Thrower 2018). While still trying to take credit from time to time for what the bureaucracy has done right, the president has largely distanced himself from the executive, even those officials he selected.…”

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The Very Best People: President Trump and the Management of Executive Personnel

Lewis¹,

Richardson²

2021

Pres Stud Q

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To his supporters, one very attractive feature of Donald Trump's candidacy was his prior experience as a business executive. Trump promised that he would run America like a business and would select the very best people. In this article, we evaluate President Trump's approach to managing the executive branch by scrutinizing his approach to personnel. We reference two sources of important new data. We first examine data on nominations to all Senate‐confirmed positions during the last three presidencies. We also use data from the 2007, 2014, and 2020 (preliminary) Surveys on the Future of Government Service, surveys of thousands of appointed and career federal executives, to determine whether the president selected the very best people. We conclude by using the survey data to evaluate whether the president’s approach led to effective management. A close look at the new data reveals that the president has been slow to nominate officials to key positions. Federal executives rate the persons the president has appointed as less competent than appointees from the Bush administration or civil servants from the current one. The survey data also reveal that the president’s approach has done nothing to arrest the decline in the capacity of the public service. We conclude by discussing the implications of the Trump presidency for our traditional understanding of the president as chief executive. Specifically, we discuss whether we should reevaluate common beliefs about presidents caring inherently about the management of the executive.

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“…It is particularly important to document post-truth policy-making, given its inflated policy commitments and disregard for evidence-based decisionmaking. Trump's governing style, with its aversion to policy analysis and disruptive approach to political norms and past policy commitments (Shapiro 2019, Thrower 2018, makes it a crucial test for this strand of visual politics.…”

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The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump

Hodson

2021

Policy Studies

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Political scientists seeking to understand politics and policy-making typically startwith what political actors say and do. But Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency reminds us that images also matter. Engaging with methods, concepts and theories from visual studies, this article analyses images of the 45 th president produced by official photographers, photojournalists, political activists and foreign governments between 1985 and 2021. W.J.T. Mitchell's concept of the pictorial turn, it argues, helps us to understand the importance of such images for Trump's post-truth politics, but also anxiety about their influence. This article finds that attempts to deride, deface or destroy Trump's charismatic, strong-man persona were never likely to succeed because, as Mitchell predicts, they reduced the president's supporters to idolaters in thrall to the power of images. Images played a more productive role, this article finds, by debunking the president's political falsehoods in ways that textual corrections struggled to do and by documenting his administration's disruptive approach to policy-making in areas such as foreign affairs and immigration policy. Such images did not tell the whole truth, but they were no less successful at confronting Trump's post-truth politics as a result.

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Policy Disruption Through Regulatory Delay in the Trump Administration

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Politicians, regulators, and regulatory governance: The neglected sides of the story

Politicians, regulators, and regulatory governance: The neglected sides of the story

The Very Best People: President Trump and the Management of Executive Personnel

The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump

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