Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. What Is a Czar?
Chapter 2. Why Czars? A Theoretical Explanation for the Rise of Presidential Policy Czars
Chapter 3. The Gradual Institutionalization of America’s Energy Policy: The Case of the Energy Czar
Chapter 4. Commanding the War on Drugs: The Drug Czar and the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Chapter 5. Founding and Fumbling the AIDS Czar: Bill Clinton and the Office of National AIDS Policy
Chapter 6. Coordination in a Post-9/11 World: George W. Bush’s Czars and the War on Terror
Chapter 7. War of the Czars: The Battle over Barack Obama’s White House Staff
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index