Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration

Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science Association

Why do presidents face so many seemingly avoidable bureaucratic conflicts? And why do these clashes usually intensify toward the end of presidential administrations, when a commander—in—chief’s administrative goals tend to be more explicit and better aligned with their a...