Lisa K. Parshall is Professor of Political Science at Daemen University in Amherst, New York. She earned her Ph.D. at the SUNY-Buffalo in 2001 and is the author of Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading’s Consequences and the National Primary Solution and the forthcoming In Local Hands: Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State. Dr. Parshall is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State.Jim Twombly is Professor of Political Science at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. Earning his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 1992, he is the author of The Progression of the American Presidency and Sex, Power, and Cover-ups: Political Scandal and American Pop Culture. Dr. Twombly is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State and The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty.

"A powerful defense of the administrative state and equally powerful indictment of the attempts of Donald Trump and his ilk to deconstruct it. The growing threats to our democracy go beyond the malignant acts of courts, state legislatures, and Congress. To overlook the administrative branch is to miss a large piece of the danger we face as a nation."—Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University

• List of Figures – List of Table – Acknowledgements – Preface – Campaigning on a Platform of Administrative Deconstruction – Deregulating the Administrative State – Managing and Staffing in the Trump Administration – Anti-Administrativism Through the Courts – Delegitimizing the Administrative State – The Plan for Reorganizing and Reforming Government – Constitution and Crisis: Barriers to Presidential Control – The Future of Public Administration Post-Trump – ​An Unfinished Story – ​Wrapping Up the Trump Presidency – ​The Biden Administration: The Renewal of Administrative Competence and Authority? – ​What Is at Stake for the Administrative State? – Index.

Lisa K. Parshall is Professor of Political Science at Daemen University in Amherst, New York. She earned her Ph.D. at the SUNY-Buffalo in 2001 and is the author of Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading’s Consequences and the National Primary Solution and the forthcoming In Local Hands: Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State. Dr. Parshall is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State.Jim Twombly is Professor of Political Science at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. Earning his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 1992, he is the author of The Progression of the American Presidency and Sex, Power, and Cover-ups: Political Scandal and American Pop Culture. Dr. Twombly is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State and The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty.

"A powerful defense of the administrative state and equally powerful indictment of the attempts of Donald Trump and his ilk to deconstruct it. The growing threats to our democracy go beyond the malignant acts of courts, state legislatures, and Congress. To overlook the administrative branch is to miss a large piece of the danger we face as a nation."—Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University

• List of Figures – List of Table – Acknowledgements – Preface – Campaigning on a Platform of Administrative Deconstruction – Deregulating the Administrative State – Managing and Staffing in the Trump Administration – Anti-Administrativism Through the Courts – Delegitimizing the Administrative State – The Plan for Reorganizing and Reforming Government – Constitution and Crisis: Barriers to Presidential Control – The Future of Public Administration Post-Trump – ​An Unfinished Story – ​Wrapping Up the Trump Presidency – ​The Biden Administration: The Renewal of Administrative Competence and Authority? – ​What Is at Stake for the Administrative State? – Index.

Lisa K. Parshall is Professor of Political Science at Daemen University in Amherst, New York. She earned her Ph.D. at the SUNY-Buffalo in 2001 and is the author of Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading’s Consequences and the National Primary Solution and the forthcoming In Local Hands: Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State. Dr. Parshall is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State.Jim Twombly is Professor of Political Science at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. Earning his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 1992, he is the author of The Progression of the American Presidency and Sex, Power, and Cover-ups: Political Scandal and American Pop Culture. Dr. Twombly is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State and The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty.

"A powerful defense of the administrative state and equally powerful indictment of the attempts of Donald Trump and his ilk to deconstruct it. The growing threats to our democracy go beyond the malignant acts of courts, state legislatures, and Congress. To overlook the administrative branch is to miss a large piece of the danger we face as a nation."—Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University

• List of Figures – List of Table – Acknowledgements – Preface – Campaigning on a Platform of Administrative Deconstruction – Deregulating the Administrative State – Managing and Staffing in the Trump Administration – Anti-Administrativism Through the Courts – Delegitimizing the Administrative State – The Plan for Reorganizing and Reforming Government – Constitution and Crisis: Barriers to Presidential Control – The Future of Public Administration Post-Trump – ​An Unfinished Story – ​Wrapping Up the Trump Presidency – ​The Biden Administration: The Renewal of Administrative Competence and Authority? – ​What Is at Stake for the Administrative State? – Index.