No Blank Check

Andrew Reeves is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is co-author (with Douglas Kriner) of The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, which received the 2016 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published in the field of the American presidency. Jon Rogowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is co-author (with William Howell and Saul Jackman) of The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat, which won the 2014 William H. Riker prize for the best book published in political economy.

'… an impressive book … Reeves and Rogowski have written a book accessible to all students of political science. As a sophisticated evaluation of the public's role in limiting the excesses of unilateral action, though, it is most appropriate for scholars and graduate students of executive politics and public opinion. The findings are robust and compelling, and the conclusions hopeful'. Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Perspectives on Politics

• 1. Introduction; 2. Watchmen in the Night?; 3. How Americans View Presidential Power; 4. Support for the Rule of Law and Attitudes toward Power; 5. Presidential Approval and Attitudes toward Power; 6. Public Cost of Unilateral Action; 7. Public Assessments of Presidential Power from the Past; 8. Attitudes toward Executive Power in a Comparative Context; 9. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.