Terry Moe on the Constitution, the Presidency, and Relic

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🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Are there many Americans today who wish the President of the United States had more power relative to the other branches of Congress? Terry Moe is one of them. In this week's EconTalk episode, Moe--a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution--talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book (co-authored with William Howell), Relic. Moe wants to give the President the power to propose legislation that Congress would have to approve or reject free of amendments. Moe argues this would improve legislation and reduce the cronyism and special interest influence on Congress.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
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0:32.3	Today's July 27th, 2016, and my guest is Terry Moe, the William Bennett Monroe Professor
0:41.6	of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:46.6	where we are recording this in the studios of the basement.
0:49.8	He has written extensively on public bureaucracy.
0:51.8	The presidency, his latest book is Relic.
0:54.8	How are Constitution undermines effective government and why we need a more powerful presidency?
1:01.0	Terry, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:02.4	Great to be with you.
1:03.6	Let's start with what's wrong with the Constitution.
1:05.4	A lot of us, myself, I'd have to say would be in this group, think it's a pretty great
1:09.4	thing.
1:10.4	Uh-huh.
1:11.4	You're kind of like treading on sacred ground here.
1:14.8	Yeah.
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