Today, Americans mostly rely on anecdotes, hearsay, and episodic reporting. Our goal to change this, first, by creating a body of knowledge useful to public servants, while developing a generation of scholars interested in effective government in executive branch. Our projects will be driven by the goal of helping the public answer the simple question, what makes an executive action more or less effective? The best teacher is history. Our team tracks executive actions from implementation to real-world impact. Over time, our team will build a body of knowledge illustrate best practices and pitfalls. We are a team of scholars at all levelsundergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty. We want to influence the pipeline of scholars entering, exiting, and becoming mentors in research institutions around the country. In the process, we will produce public goods for content-creators who educate the public. When public officials, non-profit managers, high school teachers, legislative staffers, and reporters want to understand the potential effects of some new order the governor or the President has signed, they have little to go on. Our research will become an organized, public good that will help them quickly learn whether some other chief executive has done something similar, and to what effect. Finally, we will conduct outreach and engage with the next generation of civic leaders, and the policymaking community. Knowledge generation is not enough, on its own. We will actively engage with educators and the policymaking community, by periodically inviting leaders to join our team, producing resources for educators, and producing public-facing scholarship meant to synthesize our contributions. Engagement is a two-way street we aim to educate practitioners and the public, but also have their experiences guide our agenda and improve our work.