Knowledge for Practice: Governance Essays on What the New U.S. President and Administration Should Consider in Coping with Their Executive Responsibilities

• Published in: Governance (Oxford) Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 173 - 176
• Main Author: BARZELAY, MICHAEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.04.2009; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Executive power; Governance; Government and politics; Heads of state; Leadership; Political science; Presidents; Public policy; Responsibility; U.S.A; United States; United States of America
• ISSN: 0952-1895; 1468-0491
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01249.x

At least for those with a stake in the performance of the next presidential administration, the circumstances seemed to demand empirically & historically informed practical thinking about how George W. Bush's successor should approach such responsibilities as structuring, leading, & controlling executive government at the federal level. Bearing in mind that Governance, since its inception in 1988, has served as a forum for the theoretical & practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, & the organization of the state, the journal's coeditors decided to commission a set of compact essays for publication during the forty-fourth president's first year in office. The present issue features the first three of these essays; several more are in preparation for the issue due out in July. Adapted from the source document.