%0 Journal Article
%T Donald Trump and Institutional Change Strategies
%A Dave Bridge
%A Jordan T. Cash
%J -
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/laws7030027
%X Abstract This article integrates three fields of study: the ¡°regime politics¡± paradigm in law and courts, the ¡°institutional change¡± approach in public policy, and the ¡°unilateral presidency¡± literature. In doing so, we show how law, politics, and public policy are inextricably linked, and that researchers can borrow assumptions, methods, and theories from a variety of fields. We use Donald Trump¡¯s early presidency to show how political actors (especially presidents) can use four different change strategies. In the case of Trump, we highlight: shifting of decision-making authority via insurrectionary displacement; the elimination of the individual mandate via subversive layering; a change in drone use policy via opportunistic conversion; and a gradual desensitization and change in school choice education policy via symbiotic drift. We conclude by offering lessons for all three literatures we incorporate, as well as a way forward for studying a presidential administration that many find difficult to analyze. View Full-Tex
%K institutional change
%K displacement
%K layering
%K conversion
%K drift
%K Trump
%K regime politics
%K unilateral presidency
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/7/3/27