Critical Reading: Wide Angle. The constitutional sources of government inefficiency in the United States.

Summary 1st line: In their book entitled Relic, William Howell and Terry Moe continue their work on the conceptualization of the presidential institution in the United States, begun in the early 2000s for the former1 and in the 1980s for the latter2. Although based on an assessment of the authors' previous work, the general thesis developed in the book is above all a position in the American public debate.