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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... federal civil service to carry out the will of Congress , the President , and the President's top appointees in the executive branch . Three of these initiatives are worthy of note . The first is the legislative veto . In some forms ...
... federal civil service to carry out the will of Congress , the President , and the President's top appointees in the executive branch . Three of these initiatives are worthy of note . The first is the legislative veto . In some forms ...
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... federal bureaucracy , the President was asserting his . Within a month of his inauguration in 1981 , President Ronald Reagan announced a second mechanism for controlling bureaucracy . Execu- tive Order 12,291 sought " to confront ...
... federal bureaucracy , the President was asserting his . Within a month of his inauguration in 1981 , President Ronald Reagan announced a second mechanism for controlling bureaucracy . Execu- tive Order 12,291 sought " to confront ...
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... federal government supported a mere 53,000 em- ployees ; by 1901 , it had increased fivefold to 256,000 .... The mode of governmental operations that had taken shape in Jacksonian America began to strain under the pressures of this ...
... federal government supported a mere 53,000 em- ployees ; by 1901 , it had increased fivefold to 256,000 .... The mode of governmental operations that had taken shape in Jacksonian America began to strain under the pressures of this ...
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... federal civil service to more pervasive presidential control.21 Even here , though , Roosevelt and his reform - oriented successors , William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson , had to compromise . Agencies like the Interstate Commerce ...
... federal civil service to more pervasive presidential control.21 Even here , though , Roosevelt and his reform - oriented successors , William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson , had to compromise . Agencies like the Interstate Commerce ...
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... federal government into operation did not want fundamental change . They accord- ingly created a series of checks and balances among the branches of the federal government ; most importantly , they created a federal structure that left ...
... federal government into operation did not want fundamental change . They accord- ingly created a series of checks and balances among the branches of the federal government ; most importantly , they created a federal structure that left ...
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