The Limits of Presidential Power & Executive Orders | Prof. Andrew Rudalevige - Bowdoin (Ep. 25)

Bowdoin College's Andrew Rudalevige on how the presidency become so powerful and what it means for American democracy. Rudalevige is the author of By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power and The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate.Rudalevige recommends: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency, The Development of the American Presidency, and the podcasts Presidential and Can He Do That? (now known as Sidebar).