RT Article
T1 Executive orders: Symbolic politics, criminal justice policy, and the American presidency
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 26
IS 1
SP 1
OP 21
A1 Oliver, Willard M.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764203038
AB The theory of symbolic politics is used to examine presidential executive orders related to criminal justice policy. It is hypothesized that presidents use executive orders to make more of a symbolic, rather than a substantive, statement. Data were collected from the National Archives and Records Administration on all presidential executive orders from the first Eisenhower administration (1953) through the last Clinton administration (2001). A content analysis of presidential executive orders related to crime and justice offers partial support for the claim that presidents use these executive orders primarily for evoking symbols.
K1 Symbolic Politics
K1 Crime Policy
K1 Crime Commission
K1 Criminal Justice Policy
K1 Executive Order
DO 10.1007/BF02886854