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A Comment on Presidents and the Politics of Structure
Romano, Roberta
Romano, Roberta
Abstract
Terry Moe and Scott Wilson's article Presidents and the Politics of Structure develops and refines a theme that Moe's work has emphasized: the importance of the president and, correspondingly, the incompleteness of models of the political process that focus on Congress and leave only a shadow role for the president as the exerciser of veto power. The purpose of the article is to supplement the McNollGast structure and process explanation of congressional establishment of administrative agencies by elaborating the president's countervailing institutional motivation to strengthen and consolidate the bureaucracy under presidential control.