The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900This innovative book argues that the mugwump reformers who built early bureaucracies cared less about enhancing government efficiency than about restraining the power of majoritarian political leaders in Congress and the executive branch. |
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... courts and parties " 16 America's mid - nineteenth century mode of government , in which political parties de- termined public policies and filled offices with patronage appointments , and courts determined whether those policies were ...
... courts and parties " 16 America's mid - nineteenth century mode of government , in which political parties de- termined public policies and filled offices with patronage appointments , and courts determined whether those policies were ...
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William E. Nelson. But political parties and courts resisted change , and , as a result , little was accom- plished prior ... Court's decision in Chadha or the Bush administration's outing of Valerie Plame . But how might the book help us ...
William E. Nelson. But political parties and courts resisted change , and , as a result , little was accom- plished prior ... Court's decision in Chadha or the Bush administration's outing of Valerie Plame . But how might the book help us ...
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... courts and parties , then eigh- teenth - century America was a state just of courts . In all thirteen colonies , the ... Court of Massachusetts , for example , enacted only two general laws in a typical year , 1761.26 In short , the main ...
... courts and parties , then eigh- teenth - century America was a state just of courts . In all thirteen colonies , the ... Court of Massachusetts , for example , enacted only two general laws in a typical year , 1761.26 In short , the main ...
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... Court as well as the Court's jurisdiction , Congress even managed to unnerve the judiciary . The end of the Civil War and the decade of Reconstruction thus brought something that America had never before seen -- a powerful , centralized ...
... Court as well as the Court's jurisdiction , Congress even managed to unnerve the judiciary . The end of the Civil War and the decade of Reconstruction thus brought something that America had never before seen -- a powerful , centralized ...
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... courts . Even more important was the matu- ration of judicial review . Courts had rarely held legislation unconstitutional during the first half of the nineteenth century , but in the.
... courts . Even more important was the matu- ration of judicial review . Courts had rarely held legislation unconstitutional during the first half of the nineteenth century , but in the.
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