TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lisa K. Parshall
AU  - Jim Twombly
PY  - 2023
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2576-585X
SN  - 9781433198915
TI  - Directing the Whirlwind
T2  - Deconstruction, Distrust, and the Future of American Democracy
DO  - 10.3726/b20050
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1278910
N2  - Donald J. Trump ran on a platform that, among other things, promised to "drain the swamp" that is Washington, DC. Part of that draining would entail what his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, would call "the deconstruction of the administrative state." Set in the political environment of 2020, with a raging pandemic and nationwide protests, this work examines the philosophy that guides the Trump Administration’s approach and the mechanisms by which it seeks to accomplish the deconstruction. By combining journalistic accounts with presidential and public administration scholarship, the book raises questions about the impact of Trump’s approach on the future of public administration. As such, this work makes a strong contribution to public administration and presidential studies and casts a scholarly light on treatments of Trump’s contribution to governance and politics. This new edition brings the narrative up to date and speculates about the future of the administrative state and our democracy in the aftermath of January 6th under the new Biden Administration and future presidents.   "A powerful defense of the administrative state and equally powerful indictment of the attempts of Donald Trump and his ilk to deconstruct it. The growing threats to our democracy go beyond the malignant acts of courts, state legislatures, and Congress. To overlook the administrative branch is to miss a large piece of the danger we face as a nation."—Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University   "President Donald Trump launched an unprecedented assault on American federal government. This book provides a thorough assessment of how that assault proceeded and the dangers it posed. This is an essential guide for scholars in public administration and political science, as well as students of American history."—Alasdair Roberts, Professor of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
KW  - Trump presidency, administrative state, presidentialism, bureaucratic control, administrative deconstruction, bureaucracy, public administration, Biden presidency, administrative law, January 6th, Directing the Whirlwind, Deconstruction, Distrust, and the Future of American Democracy, Future of American democracy, Trump’s contribution to governance and politics, American federal government
LA  - English
ER  -