Congratulations to Dr. Fang-yi Chiou, research fellow at IPSAS, for winning the 7th Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences with The Enigma of Presidential Power: Parties, Policies, and Strategic Uses of Unilateral Action, co-authored by Dr. Chiou and Lawrence S. Rothenberg, and published by Cambridge University Press. With gridlock, presidents increasingly rely on unilateral actions – means not requiring legislative statutes – which many view as tantamount to power. Using a variety of approaches, Chiou and Rothenberg show that this need not be the case as, under many conditions, the chief executive’s employment of such tools is constrained. This book explores into the mysterious relationship between unilateral actions taken by US presidents and their political power.
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