Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic - Skowronek, Stephen (Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science an; Dearborn, John A. (Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in the Depart; King, Desmond (Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, Andre
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In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic, Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn, and Desmond King interrogate the conflict between "the unitary executive" and the "Deep State" to uncover basic issues of governance in modern America. Fundamental concepts that have shaped the American presidency for decades: unitary executive theory and the deep state. Ingrained in the government's constitutional design and exacerbated by recent developments, this conflict is, they are, likely to bedevil American governance going forward.

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In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic, Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn, and Desmond King interrogate the conflict between "the unitary executive" and the "Deep State" to uncover basic issues of governance in modern America. Fundamental concepts that have shaped the American presidency for decades: unitary executive theory and the deep state. Ingrained in the government's constitutional design and exacerbated by recent developments, this conflict is, they are, likely to bedevil American governance going forward.
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Autorenporträt
Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Policy State: An American Predicament (2017, with Karen Orren), Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982), The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, (1997), The Search for American Political Development (2004, with Karen Orren), and Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (third edition 2020). Among other activities, he was co-founder of the journal Studies in American Political Development, which he edited between 1986 and 2007, and he provided the episode structure and thematic content for the PBS miniseries entitled The American President (Kunhardt Productions). John A. Dearborn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Dean's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (2021). He received the 2020 George C. Edwards III Award for Best Dissertation on Executive Politics as well as the 2020 E. E. Schattschneider Award for Best Dissertation on American Government from the American Political Science Association. Desmond King is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He works on racial inequality and the American state, and his publications include Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000), Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (2007), The Unsustainable American State (2009, with Lawrence Jacobs), Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America (2011, with Rogers M Smith), and Fed Power: How Finance Wins (2016, with Lawrence R Jacobs). He is a Fellow of the Academia European, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy and the National Academy of Social Insurance.