Getting Dirty‐Minded: Implementing Presidential Policy Agendas Administratively

Abstract

With polarization in Congress persistent, with staggering issues and international threats facing the nation, and with fiscal stress an enduring fact of life, presidents have for decades turned to the tools of the administrative presidency to advance and implement their policy agendas. As the Barack Obama administration completed its first six months in office amid great challenges and hopes, the president was no exception in counting on his appointees to wield the tools of the administrative presidency to advance his protean policy agenda for America. This essay offers 10 research‐based lessons for new appointees charged with advancing presidential agendas administratively to ponder as they do so.

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