Who Do You Trust? Presidential Delegation in Executive Orders
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Research and Politics
DOI
10.1177/2053168016632001
Abstract
How do presidents decide to delegate? Research on unilateral powers has (often informally) assumed that executive orders start and end with the president, but as in all principal-agent relationships, executives rely on subordinates to carry out their directives. Political scientists have explored when and why Congress delegates to the president, but such action often necessitates a response from the White House; namely, the president delegates to the bureaucracy the authority delegated to him by Congress. Bureaucrats may in turn have a wide degree of latitude when implementing the president’s orders. I argue that presidents must make strategic decisions in choosing to whom to delegate, much in the same way that Congress makes certain calculations in deciding whether to delegate to the executive branch.
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, Joshua B..
2016.
"Who Do You Trust? Presidential Delegation in Executive Orders."
Research and Politics, 3 (1): Sage Publications.
doi: 10.1177/2053168016632001 source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168016632001
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/poli-sci-facpubs/150
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