Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and The Unitary Executive

About Desmond KingJohn A. DearbornStephen Skowronek

Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Policy State: An American Predicament (2017 with Karen Orren) Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877-1920 (1982) The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton (1997) The Search for American Political Development (2004 with Karen Orren) and Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (third edition 2020). Among other activities he was co-founder of the journal Studies in American Political Development which he edited between 1986 and 2007 and he provided the episode structure and thematic content for the PBS miniseries entitled The American President (Kunhardt Productions). John A. Dearborn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Dean's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (2021). He received the 2020 George C. Edwards III Award for Best Dissertation on Executive Politics as well as the 2020 E. E. Schattschneider Award for Best Dissertation on American Government from the American Political Science Association. Desmond King is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford. He works on racial inequality and the American state and his publications include Making Americans: Immigration Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000) Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (2007) The Unsustainable American State (2009 with Lawrence Jacobs) Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America (2011 with Rogers M Smith) and Fed Power: How Finance Wins (2016 with Lawrence R Jacobs). He is a Fellow of the Academia European American Academy of Arts and Sciences the British Academy and the National Academy of Social Insurance.