The Power of the Purse vs. the Power of the Pen: Congressional Resistance to Unilateral Presidential Directives for Economic and Budgetary Policy.

• In Event: Bureaucracy, Groups, and the Presidency

Brief Overview

This paper considers an exception to the rule of congressional acquiescence to presidential unilateralism: it examines congressional pushback against executive orders for economic matters, including the New Deal, inflation, and regulatory review.

Author

• Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University