Executive Privilege—called “the definitive contemporary work on the subject” by the
Journal of Politics—is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.
This fourth edition is revised and updated to include the two Obama administrations and the first three years of the Trump administration. The new edition includes President Obama’s failure to live up to the high expectations of his campaign promises, and, President Trump’s controversies, including the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the proposed addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, and the ongoing inquiry into White House security clearances.
“For an American people who (apparently) must be their president’s keeper, this book is essential reading.â€�—
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Tabla de materias
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability
1. The Arguments against Executive Privilege
2. The Arguments in Favor of Executive Privilege
3. Undermining a Constitutional Doctrine: Richard Nixon and the Abuse of Executive Privilege
4. The Post-Watergate Years I: The “Open” Presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
5. The Post-Watergate Years II: Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the Era of Divided Government
6. Beyond the Watergate Taint I: Bill Clinton and the Effort to Restore Executive Privilege
7. Beyond the Watergate Taint II: George W. Bush and the Growing Discord over Executive Privilege
8. Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, and the Era of Intensified Polarization and Investigations
Conclusion: Resolving the Dilemma
Notes
Index
Sobre el autor
Mark J. Rozell is dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George mason University where he holds the Ruth D. and John T. Hazel Chair in public policy. He is the author of Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering, and, the coeditor of God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics.Mitchel A. Sollenberger is professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power, and, coauthor with Mark J. Rozell of The President’s Czars Undermining Congress and the Constitution; both from Kansas