The executive branch /
Aberbach, Joel D.
Peterson, Mark A.,1955-
Oxford : University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General introduction : the executive branch as an institution of American constitutional democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan -- Introduction : presidents and bureaucrats : the executive branch and American democracy / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson -- The evolution of the presidency : between the promise and the fear / Scott C. James -- The evolution of national bureaucracy in the United States / Daniel Carpenter -- Giving direction to government in comparative perspective / Richard Rose -- Presidential elections and American democracy / Stephen J. Wayne -- The executive office of the president : the paradox of politicization / Matthew J. Dickinson -- Communicating from the White House : presidential narrowcasting and the national interest / Lawrence R. Jacobs -- The person of the president, leadership, and greatness / Fred I. Greenstein -- The complex organization of the executive branch : the legacies of competing approaches to administration / Colin Campbell -- The federal public service : the people and the challenge / Patricia W. Ingraham -- Caught in the middle : the president, Congress, and the political-bureaucratic system / Barry R. Weingast -- Reforming the executive branch of the U.S. government / Donald F. Kettl -- Executive power and political parties : the dilemmas of scale in American democracy / Sidney M. Milkis -- The executive branch and the legislative process / Andrew Rudalevige -- The courts, jurisprudence, and the executive branch / R. Shep Melnick -- Federalism and the executive branch / Thomas Gais and James Fossett -- Control and accountability : dilemmas of the executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson.
Executive departments