Presidents' unilateral sway over policy is of global concern to scholars, practitioners and the
general public. While pending actions provoke media speculation about how much authority …

Throughout American history, presidents have shown a startling power to act independently
of Congress and the courts. On their own initiative, presidents have taken the country to war …

The formal institutional constraints that Congress and the courts impose on presidential
unilateral action are feeble. As a result, recent scholarship suggests that public opinion may …

The current polarization of elites in the US, particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to
the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones …

Scholarship on democratic responsiveness focuses on whether political outcomes reflect
public opinion but overlooks attitudes toward how power is used to achieve those policies …

An important vein of presidency scholarship has focused on the president's instruments of
unilateral action through systemic considerations of executive orders, proclamations, and …

Prior scholarship overlooks the capacity of other actors to raise the political costs of
unilateral action by turning public opinion against the president. Through a series of five …

Whether presidential unilateralism is normatively advantageous or parlous for American
democracy may depend on the extent to which a check remains on its exercise and abuse …

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power
between the legislative and executive branches The specter of unbridled executive power …

Concerns about unaccountable executive power have featured recurrently in political
debates from the American founding to today. For many, presidents' use of unilateral power …