Table of Contents:
  • Constitutional underpinnings. Separation Doctrine: theory and practice ; Exclusive powers ; Concurrent powers
  • President as legislator. Express powers ; Implied and evolved powers ; Executive organization and leadership ; Executive lobbying ; Restrictions on executive lobbying ; Conclusion
  • Congress as administrator. Constitutional basis ; Instruments of legislative control ; The growth of formal controls ; Legislative veto ; Foreign affairs ; Conclusions
  • Bureaucracy: agent of Congress or the president? Creating the executive departments ; Control of federal personnel ; Reorganizing the bureaucracy ; Autonomy of agency proceedings ; The president's "inner circle" ; Conclusion
  • The independent regulatory commission: Mahomet's coffin. Conflicting assessments ; Techniques of executive-legislative control ; More power to the president?
  • Representing the public interest. Congress ; The president ; The courts ; The bureaucracy ; Subsystems.