Book: The Presidents Czars by Sollenberger and Rozell Book Review

Book Review: The President’s Czars
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Book Review: The President’s Czars
Introduction
The increasingly common practice of executive presidential appointment became contentious during the era of President Barrack Obama as the president of the United States. However, the controversy is partisan-oriented and misses critical constitutional aspects at stake. Sollenberger and Rozell, the authors of the book The President’s Czars, explores the czars of the Obama-era executive branch during the reign of the head of state. Although the key focus of the authors is on Obama’s czars having unchecked and vast powers, some media-labeled positions are statutorily and in a different category. Sollenberger and Rozell make an immense contribution to the existing research regarding the powers of the president. One of the central arguments in the publication is that czars are a form of presidential power abuse that raises numerous constitutional questions. The authors provide comprehensive information on ways that presidents have adopted czars in their administration.
Summary
Considerably, Conservative commentators led by Glenn Beck criticized president Barrack Obama after appointing 32 unaccountable czars. However, independent fact-checkers dismissed the claims arguing that the number of czars was lower than that of George W. Bush. For that reason, the public focused on other issues, thus influencing the attention of czars to fade away. According to the findings of Sollenberger and Rozell, it would be relatively important to counter the widespread preference for an influential presidency with limited constraints despite the partisan nature of debates (Sollenberger & Rozell, 2012). Notably, the core objective of the authors is to address the tendency of presidents in bypassing checks and balances through the use of unaccountable czars in the process of implementing public policies. Since Obama had promised accountability, the authors criticize his leadership by arguing that the proliferation of czars during the early administration of president Barack Obama was staggering. According to the findings, czars operate outside the system of checks and balances in the constitution.
According to Sollenberger and Rozell (2012), Barack Obama allowed pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, to oversee $20 billion funds for the victims of the BP oil spill and enforce guidelines of executive pay for the organizations that received $700 billion. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of president czars while tracing the history of the position during the reign of President Barack Obama and George W. Bush. The czars reveal the pressure of working under policy front since most presidents turn to the appointed officials, which violates the appointment clause. Besides, the authors contend that that czars are ill-conceived and disrupt the existing governing system based on the accountability of democracy. Therefore, the findings of the book serve as a counter-argument to the individuals who would embrace a powerful president with fewer restrictions. The authors postulate that czars have not been effective in making the executive branch of the government bureaucracy.
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