This book reinterprets how and when presidents use unilateral power, arguing that these orders are used not only to press the president's agenda, but also to share power with Congress and facilitate the work of government.

Michelle Belco is a Licensed Attorney and Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Houston.Brandon Rottinghaus is Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston and Director of the Presidential Proclamations Project. He is the author of The Institutional Effects of Executive Scandal (2015) and The Provisional Pulpit: Modern Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion (2010).

In The Dual Executive: Unilateral Orders in a Separated and Shared Power System, Michelle Belco and Brandon Rottinghaus take us a long way toward the theory and methodology of a second generation of unilateral studies. In their well-written book, Belco and Rottinghaus integrate the routine orders that presidents issue as part of their administrative function, along with the more consequential, transformative orders that represent the powers of a command-oriented independent presidency."