The Presidency and Public Policy Making

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The Presidency and Public Policy Making is written by George C. Edwards and published by Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822953730 (ISBN 10) and 9780822953739 (ISBN 13).

The premise behind this book is that policy making provides a useful perspective for studying the presidency, perhaps the most important and least understood policy-making institution in the United States. The eleven essays focus on diverse aspects of presidential policy making, providing insights on the presidency and its relationship to other policy-making actors and institutions. Major topics addressed include the environment of presidential policy making and the constraints it places on the chief executive; relationships with those outside the executive branch that are central to presidential policy making; attempts to lead the public and Congress; presidential decision making; and administration or implementation of policies in the executive branch, a topic that has received limited attention in the literature on the presidency.