ABSTRACT
The attraction of institutions, to policy-makers, the people and policy analysts, is that they give a structure to a world that is complex, and where there is a multitude of temporal processes underway at different levels. Institutions help provide a buffer against the uncertainty of interaction among policy actors and the perturbations external to the policy process. Institutions are enduring, regular and tend to be difficult to change. 1 Policy actors make use of institutions and are shaped by them. Political structures affect the behaviour of elected officials towards one another, towards the citizens and the respective groupings and associations. In reviewing Donald Trump’s 100 days as president of the USA, we see a policy leader transforming the nation’s highest office by pushing the traditional boundaries, ignoring long-standing protocol and discarding historical antecedents, but he has also adapted his approach to both the job and the momentous challenges it entails. 2
