The tools of presidential direct administration
Executive orders : directing the executive branch
Executive orders : strategies, tactics, and political realities
Presidential memoranda : executive orders by another name
Presidential proclamations : rule by decree
National security directives : secret orders both foreign and domestic
Executive agreements : when is a treaty not a treaty?
Presidential signing statements : a different kind of line-item veto
Presidential direct action and the Washington rules : the dangers of power tools.
By order of the president : the use and abuse of executive direct action by Phillip J. Cooper. ISBN 9780700620128. Published by University Press of Kansas in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.