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Contemporary Presidency The Office of the Chief of Staff in the Trump White House, 2017–2019
Author(s) -
Cohen David B.,
Hult Karen M.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
presidential studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1741-5705
pISSN - 0360-4918
DOI - 10.1111/psq.12646
Subject(s) - presidency , white (mutation) , staffing , house staff , administration (probate law) , political science , public administration , context (archaeology) , house of representatives , management , scholarship , public relations , politics , law , medicine , history , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , family medicine , economics , gene
Focusing on White House chiefs of staff and the Office of the Chief of Staff during the first three years of the Donald Trump administration, we examine the office and its occupants in the context of past scholarship on White House structuring and staffing. We discuss four major roles performed by chiefs of staff and their deputies (administrator, advisor, guardian, proxy), exploring their participation in management and in policy processes. We also look at the larger chief of staff's office, noting continuities with, and changes from, previous presidencies. Probing the roles, activities, and performance of President Donald Trump's first three chiefs of staff underscores both the significance of individual presidents in governing and the apparent constraints on their doing so.