{"id":461,"date":"2018-07-13T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/davidlewis\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:45:03","slug":"academic-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/davidlewis\/academic-writing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Book chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Political Appointees to the Federal Bureaucracy,”<\/a> Center for Effective Government, University of Chicago, Democracy Reform Primer Series, February 20, 2024.<\/p>\n

“Will Federal Employees Work for a President They Disagree With?”<\/a> (with Alexander D. Bolton and John M. de Figueiredo)\u00a0Harvard Business Review, <\/em>February 10, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cOMB in its Management Role: Evidence from Surveys of Federal Executives,\u201d (with Mark D. Richardson and Eric Rosenthal), in Meenekshi Bose and Andrew Rudalevige, eds., Prioritizing Presidential Policies: How Does the Office of Management and Budget Influence Executive Policy Making?<\/em> (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2020).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidency and the Bureaucracy,\u201d<\/a> (with Terry M. Moe) In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System<\/em>, 11 ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2018).<\/p>\n

\u201cStruggling Over Bureaucracy: The Levers of Control,\u201d<\/a> (with Terry M. Moe) In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System<\/em>, 10th<\/sup> ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cPresidential Politicization of the Executive Branch in the United States,\u201d<\/a> in Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich, eds. Executive Politics in Times of Crisis<\/em>. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2012).<\/p>\n

\u201cPolicy Durability and Agency Design,\u201d<\/a> in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric Patashnik, eds., Living Legislation: Political Development and Contemporary American Politics. <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2012).<\/p>\n

“Presidential Appointments in the Obama Administration: An Early Evaluation.\u201d<\/a> In Andrew Dowdle, Dirk van Raemdonck, Robert Maranto , eds., The Obama\u00a0Presidency: Change and Continuity<\/em>. New York: Routledge (2011).<\/p>\n

\u201cStruggling Over Bureaucracy: The Levers of Control,\u201d<\/a> (with Terry M. Moe) In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System<\/em>, 9th<\/sup> ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonnel is Policy: George W. Bush\u2019s Managerial Presidency,\u201d In Colin Provost and Paul Teske, eds. Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers: President George W. Bush\u2019s Influence Over Bureaucracy and Policy<\/em>. New York: Palgrave (2009). [Download Chapter]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President and the Evolving Institutional Presidency: Presidential Choice, Institutional Change, and Staff Performance.\u201d<\/a> In Bert A. Rockman and Richard Waterman, eds. Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press (2008).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidency and the Bureaucracy: Management Imperatives in a Separation of Powers System.\u201d\u00a0<\/a> In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System<\/em>, 8PthP<\/sup> ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2005).<\/p>\n

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Reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies,<\/em> <\/a>2nd ed.(with Jennifer L. Selin). Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (2018).<\/p>\n

Survey on the Future of Government Service<\/em><\/a> (with Mark D. Richardson). Report for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (2015).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies<\/em><\/a> (with Jennifer L. Selin). Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (2012).<\/p>\n

\u201cReducing the Number of Political Appointees,\u201d<\/a> Memos to National Leaders Project<\/em>, National Academy of Public Administration (2012).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House Office of Presidential Personnel,\u201d<\/a> (with James P. Pfiffner and Bradley H. Patterson) White House Transition Project Report 2009-27<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n

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Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review of Daniel Treisman, The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization<\/em>, Public Administration<\/u> <\/a>87(4):983-4 (2009).<\/p>\n

Review of Kenneth R. Mayer, With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power<\/em>. Congress and the Presidency<\/u> <\/a>29(2):230-2 (2002).<\/p>\n

“Do Agencies Have the Capacity to be Reasonable?”<\/a> Commentary on The Reasoning State <\/em>by Edward H. Stiglitz,\u00a0Yale Journal on Regulation, <\/em>November, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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