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Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools

Justin S. Vaughn and José D. Villalobos 2015
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When Barack Obama entered the White House, he followed a long-standing precedent for the development and implementation of major policies by appointing administrators—so-called policy czars—charged with directing the response to the nation's most pressing crises. Demonstrating that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combating partisan polarization and navigating the federal government's complexity, Vaughn and Villalobos offer a sober, empirical analysis of what precisely constitutes a czar and what role they have played in the modern presidency.
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  • 978-0-472-12111-3 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-03694-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-11958-5 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Political Science:American Politics
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. What Is a Czar?
  • Chapter 2. Why Czars? A Theoretical Explanation for the Rise of Presidential Policy Czars
  • Chapter 3. The Gradual Institutionalization of America’s Energy Policy: The Case of the Energy Czar
  • Chapter 4. Commanding the War on Drugs: The Drug Czar and the Office of National Drug Control Policy
  • Chapter 5. Founding and Fumbling the AIDS Czar: Bill Clinton and the Office of National AIDS Policy
  • Chapter 6. Coordination in a Post-9/11 World: George W. Bush’s Czars and the War on Terror
  • Chapter 7. War of the Czars: The Battle over Barack Obama’s White House Staff
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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