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.
Justin S. Vaughn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boise State University. José D. Villalobos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso.
“Justin Vaughn and José Villalobos have given us the first effort at a comprehensive appraisal of the work these czars have done. This book is an excellent effort to fill a major gap in the scholarship of both the presidency and public policy.”—Congress & the Presidency
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Cigdem V. Sirin, Nicholas A. Valentino, José D. Villalobos, José D. Villalobos, El Paso) Sirin, Cigdem V. (University of Texas, Ann Arbor) Valentino, Nicholas A. (University of Michigan, El Paso) Villalobos, Jose D. (University of Texas, Cigdem V Sirin, Nicholas A Valentino, José D Villalobos