PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Campaigning on a Platform of Administrative DeconstructionDeconstruction During the 2016 CampaignDraining the Swamp or Controlling the Beast?Meaning of Drain the SwampCan the Beast Be Controlled?Presidential Control ModelWhy This Route Instead of More Standard Democratic Processes?A Democratic Threat?2. Deregulating the Administrative StateRolling Back Administrative RegulationRegulatory Delay and NonenforcementThe Congressional Review ActThe Directive Power: Trump’s Deregulatory Executive OrdersAssessing the Impact of the Trump Administration’s Deregulatory AgendaThe Stock and Flow of RegulationsBlocked by the CourtsBeyond Deregulation3. Managing and Staffing in the Trump AdministrationPrincipal-Agent TheoryAppointing AnathemasAgency MoraleThe Revolving Door: A New Managerial Style?Gaining Ground?4. Anti-Administrativism Through the CourtsEnding Judicial DeferenceWhat Are the Chevron and Auer Deference Doctrines?Recent Calls to End Judicial DeferenceCongressional Support for the End of Judicial DeferenceJudicial Appointments and Anti-AdministrativismWould Abandonment of Chevron Deference Destroy the Administrative State?Unintended Consequences?Administrative Law Judges and Immigration: An Illustrative ExampleThe Long-Term Impact on Constitutional Legitimacy of the Court and for the Rule of Law?5. Delegitimizing the Administrative StateThe “Deep State” versus the “Steady State”National Intelligence and Foreign Affairs“I Know Better than the Generals”Law EnforcementSilencing the ScientistsUndermining Bureaucracy in the Context of Theory6. The Plan for Reorganizing and Reforming GovernmentPresidential Reorganization AuthorityTrump and Executive ReorganizationThe White House Office of American Innovation (OAI)Executive Order 13781 and OMB-Led ReorganizationBudgetary Power: Downsizing, Defunding, and ReorganizingEfficiency versus Loyalty in the Reorganization of GovernmentReorganizing without Expertise7. Constitution and Crisis: Barriers to Presidential ControlThe Enduring Power of the Administrative StateThe Administrative State Strikes Back?The COVID-19 Crisis and the Hollowed-Out StateThe Enduring Power of FederalismThe Trump Administration’s Approach to FederalismFederalism and COVID-19 Crisis: Trump versus the GovernorsFederalism and the 2020 ProtestsConstitution and Crisis: Trump’s Last Chance or Just the Beginning?8. The Future of Public Administration Post-TrumpPerspectives on Trump’s Impact on the Administrative StatePolitics-as-Usual and Mid-Range InterpretationsMid-Range to Alarmist InterpretationsTrump as an Existential ThreatThe Post-Acquittal President: An Even Greater Threat?The Administrative State Post-Trump?Index