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Introduction -- Contributors -- Unilateral powers of the presidency -- The executive power -- The growth of executive discretion -- Tools of unilateralism: the modern presidency -- Policy implementation -- Emergency powers -- The resurgence regime -- Chief of state -- Ceremonial duties and functions -- Chief of state role and presidential power -- Chief of state burdens -- Delegation of chief of state functions -- Conclusion -- Chief administrator -- The President as chief administrator -- The appointment power -- The budgeting power -- The President as chief law enforcement officer -- Legislative leader -- The veto -- The presidents program -- Chief diplomat -- Distribution of foreign policy power -- Presidential dominance of foreign policy -- Congressional cooperation and conflict -- Power of communication -- The treaty power -- Executive agreements -- The recognition power -- Power to appoint diplomatic personnel -- Summit meetings -- Manager of the foreign policy bureaucracy -- Commander in chief -- Distribution of war-making power -- Development of presidential war powers -- War powers resolution -- Military responses to terrorism -- International agreements and the war powers -- President as military commander -- President as defense manager -- Presidential wartime emergency powers -- Armed forces in presidential diplomacy and foreign policy -- Chief economist -- Presidential power over the economy -- Interaction and evolution of economic theory, institutions, and events -- The evolution of institutions, laws, and rules -- Historical development of stabilization policy -- Future challenges: economic issues for the twenty-first century -- Index. |
