Getting Dirty - Minded : Implementing Presidential Policy Agendas Administratively Academic – Practitioner Exchange : Effectively Implementing Federal Policies

E-mail: [email protected] With polarization in Congress persistent, with staggering issues and international threats facing the nation, and with fi scal stress an enduring fact of life, presidents have for decades turned to the tools of the administrative presidency to advance and implement their policy agendas. As the Barack Obama administration completed its fi rst six months in offi ce amid great challenges and hopes, the president was no exception in counting on his appointees to wield the tools of the administrative presidency to advance his protean policy agenda for America. Th is essay off ers 10 research-based lessons for new appointees charged with advancing presidential agendas administratively to ponder as they do so.