Mitchel A. Sollenberger & Mark J. Rozell 
Executive Privilege [EPUB ebook] 
Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability

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

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