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Parshall, Lisa K.

Lisa K. Parshall is Professor of Political Science at Daemen University in Amherst, New York. She earned her Ph.D. at the SUNY-Buffalo in 2001 and is the author of Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading’s Consequences and the National Primary Solution and the forthcoming In Local Hands: Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State. Dr. Parshall is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State.
Jim Twombly is Professor of Political Science at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. Earning his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 1992, he is the author of The Progression of the American Presidency and Sex, Power, and Cover-ups: Political Scandal and American Pop Culture. Dr. Twombly is also the co-author of Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State and The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty.

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Directing the Whirlwind

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.