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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... for President or completing a tax return , con- tinually ignore his own economic interests and act as a citizen in ac- cordance with an Old Testament moral code inherited from his Calvinist forebears . At the outset of my career ,
... for President or completing a tax return , con- tinually ignore his own economic interests and act as a citizen in ac- cordance with an Old Testament moral code inherited from his Calvinist forebears . At the outset of my career ,
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... citizens and leaders of government on the basis of moral values . Their examples made plausible my perception that the radicals of the Reconstruction era had acted on the basis of similar values . Their example also suggested that I ...
... citizens and leaders of government on the basis of moral values . Their examples made plausible my perception that the radicals of the Reconstruction era had acted on the basis of similar values . Their example also suggested that I ...
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