Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools

Authors

Justin S. Vaughn, Coastal Carolina University
Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso

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Description

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.

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Disciplines

Political Science

Recommended Citation

Vaughn, Justin S. and Villalobos, Jose D., "Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools" (2015). CCU Faculty Books. 94.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/faculty-books/94

ISBN

9780472119585, 9780472121113, 9780472036943