Signing On and Sounding Off: Presidential Signing Statements in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–61

Conley, Richard S.

doi:10.1080/07343469.2013.753818

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“…The methodology for deriving the action and policy categories follows the author's prior study of signing statements focused on the Eisenhower presidency (Conley 2010). "Action" is a five-fold category.…”

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The Harbinger of the Unitary Executive? An Analysis of Presidential Signing Statements from Truman to Carter

Conley

2011

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Contemporary scholarship has focused much attention on presidents' routine exploitation of signing statements since the 1980s to disallow provisions of bills passed by Congress. Much less is known about earlier post–World War II presidents' use of signing statements and what precedents they may have set for their successors. This study takes a sharp focus on the 934 signing statements issued from 1945 to 1980, from Presidents Harry Truman through Jimmy Carter. The analysis classifies these signing statements by policy area and by the type of comments the president made. The results accentuate how the resurgent Congress in the 1970s—including budget reform and challenges to presidential latitude in foreign policy through legislative vetoes—compelled Presidents Gerald Ford and Carter to increasingly use signing statements to nullify legislative provisos. The analysis emphasizes how cycles of congressional change affected earlier presidents' use of signing statements, laying a foundation for their successors' more broad manipulation of this rhetorical instrument to aggrandize executive prerogative.

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The Harbinger of the Unitary Executive? An Analysis of Presidential Signing Statements from Truman to Carter

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2011

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“…Scholarship on the unilateral presidency has focused on presidential policy making with the stroke of a pen, with attention placed on presidential executive orders (Howell ; Mayer 2001; Rudalevige ; Warber ), proclamations (Rottinghaus and Maier ), signing statements (Conley ; Kelley ; Kelley and Marshall ), and other directives. Many studies have shifted from merely describing these powers and their constitutionality to providing predictive models to explain institutional factors concerning when presidents issue unilateral orders.…”

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Unilateral Orders as Constituency Outreach: Executive Orders, Proclamations, and the Public Presidency

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2015

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Scholarship on the unilateral presidency has focused on presidential policy making with the stroke of a pen. However, such studies overlook the influence that the public presidency can have on shaping the president's unilateral strategies. Our research question seeks to link these two elements by exploring the following question: under what conditions do presidents issue executive orders and proclamations as part of their public presidency? Using new data charting the use of these directives to target populations in society, we analyze the role of the political environment on engendering both more constituency-based executive orders and proclamations. The results suggest presidents issue more constituencybased proclamations, but not executive orders, when Congress and the executive branch are more likely to disagree on policy or when Congress is institutionally stronger compared to the president. Presidents are less likely to issue these orders during election years (for proclamations), in changing popularity, or when their party has returned to office. The implications suggest the importance of broadening the study of unilateral orders to link the public and administrative presidencies.Scholarship on the unilateral presidency has focused on presidential policy making with the stroke of a pen, with attention placed on presidential executive orders (Howell

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“…It shows the ability and frequency in which presidents have employed a broad range of powers not delineated in the Constitution. Others, too, have added explanations of the extra-constitutional tools in the president's belt, including signing statements, proclamations, executive orders, and executive agreements (Mayer 2001;Rottinghaus and Maier 2007;Krutz and Peake 2009;Conley 2011Conley , 2013.…”

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Donald Trump and Institutional Change Strategies

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2018

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This article integrates three fields of study: the "regime politics" paradigm in law and courts, the "institutional change" approach in public policy, and the "unilateral presidency" literature. In doing so, we show how law, politics, and public policy are inextricably linked, and that researchers can borrow assumptions, methods, and theories from a variety of fields. We use Donald Trump's early presidency to show how political actors (especially presidents) can use four different change strategies. In the case of Trump, we highlight: shifting of decision-making authority via insurrectionary displacement; the elimination of the individual mandate via subversive layering; a change in drone use policy via opportunistic conversion; and a gradual desensitization and change in school choice education policy via symbiotic drift. We conclude by offering lessons for all three literatures we incorporate, as well as a way forward for studying a presidential administration that many find difficult to analyze.

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Signing On and Sounding Off: Presidential Signing Statements in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–61

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

The Harbinger of the Unitary Executive? An Analysis of Presidential Signing Statements from Truman to Carter

The Harbinger of the Unitary Executive? An Analysis of Presidential Signing Statements from Truman to Carter

Unilateral Orders as Constituency Outreach: Executive Orders, Proclamations, and the Public Presidency

Donald Trump and Institutional Change Strategies

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