Title: Summary of Neustadt: Presidential power -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science
Headings: Neustadt: Presidential power
Neustadt: Presidential power
In Brief
Place in the Literature
Argument
Presidents must persuade/bargain, not command
Shared, not separated powers
President's sources of power
Illustrations
Executive bargaining
Congressional bargaining
Research on similar subjects
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Content: For critiques of pluralism, see the summary of Truman.) Kernell (1997) later argued that presidents have shifted from Neustadt's bargaining model to a more confrontational tactic that he calls "going public." Argument
Presidents must persuade/bargain, not command
The president's primary power is to persuade and bargain, not to command. When a president has to resort to commanding people, he is showing weakness. Commands only work in very special circumstances. " The essence of a President's persuasive task is to convince such men that what the White House wants of them is what they ought to do for their sake and on their authority" (30). Shared, not separated powers
The American system is one of shared, not separated, powers (see Madison 1787, #51 ). The president is only one of several masters of the bureaucracy, and even the White House staff have independent sources of power (34-6). People in all positions cannot do much without persuading others to help them, and this applies even to the president. However, more people need favors from the president than from any other person.