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Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools
Justin S. Vaughn and José D. VillalobosWhen 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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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. What Is a Czar?
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Chapter 2. Why Czars? A Theoretical Explanation for the Rise of Presidential Policy Czars
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Chapter 3. The Gradual Institutionalization of America’s Energy Policy: The Case of the Energy Czar
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Chapter 4. Commanding the War on Drugs: The Drug Czar and the Office of National Drug Control Policy
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Chapter 5. Founding and Fumbling the AIDS Czar: Bill Clinton and the Office of National AIDS Policy
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Chapter 6. Coordination in a Post-9/11 World: George W. Bush’s Czars and the War on Terror
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Chapter 7. War of the Czars: The Battle over Barack Obama’s White House Staff
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-11958-5 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12111-3 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03694-3 (paper)