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Donald J. Trump ran on a platform that, among other things, promised to "drain the swamp" that is Washington, DC. Part of that draining would entail what his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, would call "the deconstruction of the administrative state." Set in the political environment of 2020, with a raging pandemic and nationwide protests, this work examines the philosophy that guides the Trump Administration's approach and the mechanisms by which it seeks to accomplish the deconstruction. By combining journalistic accounts with presidential and public administration scholarship, the book raises questions about the impact of Trump's approach on the future of public administration. As such, this work makes a strong contribution to public administration and presidential studies and casts a scholarly light on treatments of Trump's contribution to governance and politics.

Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State

List of Figures - List of Table - Preface - Acknowledgements - Campaigning on a Platform of Administrative Deconstruction - Deregulating the Administrative State - Managing and Staffing in the Trump Administration - Anti-Administrativism Through the Courts - Delegitimizing the Administrative State - The Plan for Reorganizing and Reforming Government - Constitution and Crisis: Barriers to Presidential Control - The Future of Public Administration Post-Trump - Index.