BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman PresidencyWillia m G. Howell is professor and dean of the School of Goverment &\; Policy at John Hopkins UniversityFrom Amazon.com\, August 2025:“Howell’s book wi th co-author Terry M. Moe\, is a sweeping account of the historical rise o f presidential power\, arguing that it has now grown to the point where\, in the wrong hands\, it threatens to subvert American democracy and replac e it with a de facto system of strongman rule\, whether led by Donald Trum p or someone else.He writes\, for much of the twentieth century\, Republic an and Democratic presidents pursued power in very similar ways and almost always within democratic bounds. But Republican presidents since Ronald R eagan\, in a transformation that has grown increasingly extreme over time\ , have gone beyond the “normal” incentives that have traditionally shaped presidential behavior—and still shape the behavior of Democratic president s—to pursue a presidency of such expansive unilateral power\, and with suc h disregard for basic democratic requirements\, that it puts democracy at serious risk.Trajectory of Power \;traces this divergence in approach to the backlash of conservatives against the administrative state\, and to their epiphany that a war on big government could only be waged through a presidency of extraordinary power. With this vision in mind\, Reagan’s Ju stice Department pioneered the Unitary Executive Theory\, which justified vast expansions of unilateral presidential power and was further radicaliz ed over the decades as the Republican Party became more ideologically extr eme\, more populist\, more anti-system\, and ultimately more supportive of a strongman presidency.” DTEND:20260327T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T194032Z DTSTART:20260327T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:State of Democracy Lecture | Trajectory of Power\, William G. Howel l UID:RFCALITEM639141108326719418 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Stron gman Presidency

William G. Howell is professor and dean of the Sch ool of Goverment &\; Policy at John Hopkins University

From Amaz on.com\, August 2025:

“Howell’s book with co-author Terry M. Moe\, i s a sweeping account of the historical rise of presidential power\, arguin g that it has now grown to the point where\, in the wrong hands\, it threa tens to subvert American democracy and replace it with a de facto system o f strongman rule\, whether led by Donald Trump or someone else.

He writes\, for much of the twentieth century\, Republican and Democratic pre sidents pursued power in very similar ways and almost always within democr atic bounds. But Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan\, in a transfor mation that has grown increasingly extreme over time\, have gone beyond th e “normal” incentives that have traditionally shaped presidential behavior —and still shape the behavior of Democratic presidents—to pursue a preside ncy of such expansive unilateral power\, and with such disregard for basic democratic requirements\, that it puts democracy at serious risk.

Trajectory of Power \;traces this di vergence in approach to the backlash of conservatives against the administ rative state\, and to their epiphany that a war on big government could on ly be waged through a presidency of extraordinary power. With this vision in mind\, Reagan’s Justice Department pioneered the Unitary Executive Theo ry\, which justified vast expansions of unilateral presidential power and was further radicalized over the decades as the Republican Party became mo re ideologically extreme\, more populist\, more anti-system\, and ultimate ly more supportive of a strongman presidency.”

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