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John Dearborn

@johnadearborn.bsky.social

@VandyPoliSci Assistant Professor. Research: Presidency, Congress, American Political Development. @Yale PhD & proud @UConn alum. http://johnadearborn.com

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Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 3mo ago

For those interested in how we got here, I highly recommend this 2025 piece from @johnadearborn.bsky.social on @donmoyn.bsky.social's site. "A desire to change civil rights policies has long shaped the conservative legal movement’s vision for asserting presidential control over the gov't"

How Reagan-Era Battles over Affirmative Action Fueled Unitary Executive Theory

A desire to change civil rights policies has long shaped the conservative legal movement’s vision for asserting presidential control over the administrative state

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Andrew Rudalevige@rudalev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's worth noting @johnadearborn.bsky.social 's work in this area since often Congress itself passes laws grounded in this assumption. (Then, often, Congress comes to regret those laws...) www.amazon.com/Power-Shifts...

Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (Chicago Studies in American Politics) [Dearborn, John A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

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John Dearborn@johnadearborn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thanks so much to the Purdue Program on American Institutional Renewal for the opportunity last week to give a Politics in PAIR-Spective Lecture about my book project, Presidential Power after the Rights Revolution! www.linkedin.com/posts/purdue...

Our final Politics in PAIR-Spective Lecture of the semester was a success! Dr. John Dearborn gave an insightful talk into the rights revolution, revealing how civil rights regulation in the 20th… | P...

Our final Politics in PAIR-Spective Lecture of the semester was a success! Dr. John Dearborn gave an insightful talk into the rights revolution, revealing how civil rights regulation in the 20th cent...

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Studies in American Political Development@studiesapd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New issue! includes articles from bsky-ers @johnadearborn.bsky.social @uhackett.bsky.social @trounstine.bsky.social @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social @ayakohiramatsu.bsky.social and much more!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 12mo ago

NEW ISSUE from @studiesapd.bsky.social - Studies in American Political Development - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - October 2025 - https://cup.org/3KL7Eyo #OpenAccess

Logo of the journal "Studies in American Political Development" featuring the acronym "SAPD" in large blue letters on a golden background, with the full title written in smaller font below.
Paul Blumenthal@paulblumenthal.bsky.social · last yr.

Wrote about Trump's vision of the presidency as a "mini-absolutist monarchy" (as @johnadearborn.bsky.social put it). And since the expansion of executive power has been described as a ratchet, why no future president is likely to give it up willingly www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

How Trump Broke The Presidency

Trump’s quest to claim all power for himself is drastically reshaping not just his presidency, but American democracy writ large.

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Noah Rosenblum@narosenblum.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to share my latest, History and Fetishism in the New Separation of Powers Formalism, now live in the Penn Law Review! The piece traces the emergence of the Supreme Court’s new approach to separation of powers law and argues that it is grounded in a set of basic mistakes. (1/3)

In the last few years, the Supreme Court has embraced a formalist approach to separation of powers law, allegedly justified by the Constitution's "original meaning." It is revolutionary, rapidly remaking the constitutional law of administration. But the Court's engagement with history is selective and idiosyncratic. In particular, it has largely ignored what we know of governmental practice in the early republic. This Essay attacks the Court's use of history. It uses Jack Balkin's analysis of legal discourse in Memory and Authority to unpack the Court's reliance on historical arguments and to suggest avenues for critique. It draws on recent scholarship on Founding Era practice to show that eighteenth-century understandings of separation of powers were not formalist. And it argues for the restoration of Montesquieu to our constitutional memory. A key figure in the development of the Constitution, Montesquieu's understanding of separation of powers closely tracked early republic practice. He thus points the way towards an alternative interpretation of our constitutional tradition and a more pragmatic and historically accurate structural constitutionalism in place of the Court's growing formalist fetish.
John Dearborn@johnadearborn.bsky.social · last yr.

Grateful to have been part of this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. There is so much great, timely research happening on the administrative state.

Yale ISPS@ispsyale.bsky.social · last yr.

Backseat car hammocks for babies? Thanks to government, they are no longer for sale in the United States. Now, as federal regulators come under attack from within, political scientists and legal scholars gathered for a conference on the future of studying the administrative state: bit.ly/44LJSbW

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

New at Can We Still Govern: Trump hates DEI and loves unitary executive theory. @johnadearborn.bsky.social traces one of rhe first early articulations of the theory in the Reagan-era assault on affirmative action, featuring a couple of current SCOTUS justices. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

How Reagan-Era Battles over Affirmative Action Fueled Unitary Executive Theory

A desire to change civil rights policies has long shaped the conservative legal movement’s vision for asserting presidential control over the administrative state

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