Faculty and Staff Profile

Adam Warber

Educational Background

Ph.D. Political Science
Texas A&M University 2002

M.A. Political Science
Western Michigan University 1996

B.A. Political Science and History
Hope College 1993

Courses Taught

The American Presidency
Public Policy
The American Presidency in Film & Television
American National Government
Policy Analysis Seminar I and II (Graduate)
The American Presidency and Public Policy (Graduate)

Profile

I am a professor of political science in the Department of Political Science and the Reviews and Book Editor for the Congress & the Presidency journal. My main area of expertise is the American presidency in which my research has focused on the unilateral presidency and the administrative presidency. Specifically, I assess how presidents make public policy by circumventing Congress through a variety of unilateral powers and tools and how they use administrative tools to influence and control the federal bureaucracy in relation to the policymaking process. I have written extensively on one type of unilateral tool, presidential executive orders, and I am considered to be one of the leading experts on this presidential power. In addition, I have written pieces on presidential appointments, the president's cabinet, religion and the American presidency, and the Trump presidency.

Research Publications

Book:

Warber, Adam L. 2006. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.


Research Articles:

Potter, Rachel Augustine, Andrew Rudalevige, Sharece D. Thrower, and Adam L. Warber. September 2022. “Not by the Numbers: Evaluating Trump’s Administrative Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 52(3): 596-625.

Potter, Rachel Augustine, Andrew Rudalevige, Sharece Thrower, and Adam L. Warber. October 2019. "Continuity Trumps Change: The First Year of Trump's Administrative Presidency." PS: Political Science & Politics 52(4): 613-19.

Warber, Adam L., Yu Ouyang, and Richard W. Waterman. March 2018. "Landmark Executive Orders: Presidential Leadership Through Unilateral Action." Presidential Studies Quarterly 48(1): 110-26.

Rottinghaus, Brandon, and Warber, Adam L. June 2015. "Unilateral Orders as Constituency Outreach: Executive Orders, Proclamations, and the Public Presidency" Presidential Studies Quarterly 45(2): 289-309.

Warber, Adam L. October 2014. "Public Outreach, Executive Orders, and the Unilateral Presidency" Congress & the Presidency 41(3): 269-88.

Fine, Jeffrey A., and Adam L. Warber. June 2012. "Circumventing Adversity: Executive Orders and Divided Government" Presidential Studies Quarterly 42(2): 256-74.

Olson, Laura R., and Adam L. Warber. June 2008. "Belonging, Behaving, and Believing: Assessing the Role of Religion on Presidential Approval" Political Research Quarterly 61(2): 192-204.

Chin, Michelle L., Adam L. Warber, and Phillip Hardy. 2005. "How Firm a Foundation?: Church Organizational Structure and the Political Mobilization of Congregants" National Political Science Review Vol. 10: 29-42.

Durant, Robert F., and Adam L. Warber. June 2001. "Networking in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Public Policy, the Administrative Presidency, and the Neoadministrative State" Presidential Studies Quarterly 31(2): 221-44.


Book Chapters:

Olson, Laura R., Adam L. Warber, and Kevin R. den Dulk. 2013. "Mainline Protestants and the 2008 Presidential Election" In Religion, Race, and Barack Obama's New Democratic Pluralism. Gaston Espinosa, ed. New York: Routledge Press.

Warber, Adam L., and Mark E. Byrnes. 2012. "The President and the Bureaucracy" In Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch, 5th ed. Michael Nelson, ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Warber, Adam L., Shirley Anne Warshaw, Craig Bledsoe, and Adriel Bettelheim. 2012. "The Cabinet and Executive Departments" In Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch, 5th ed. Michael Nelson, ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Olson, Laura R., and Adam L. Warber. 2008. "Mainline Protestants and the American Presidency" In Religion, Race, Pluralism and the American Presidency. Gaston Espinosa, ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Olson, Laura R., and Adam L. Warber. 2007. "The Mainline Protestant Vote" In Religion and the Bush Presidency. Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pgs. 69-93.

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