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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... majority disagreed with White and held the legislative veto unconstitutional . Just as Congress was losing its power to control the federal bureaucracy , the President was asserting his . Within a month of his inauguration in 1981 ...
... majority disagreed with White and held the legislative veto unconstitutional . Just as Congress was losing its power to control the federal bureaucracy , the President was asserting his . Within a month of his inauguration in 1981 ...
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... majority striving to impose its ideals on a minority that possesses an utterly different vision of the good life . 28 Skowronek , Building a New American State , 178 . the national government could enforce whatever it wanted to enforce.
... majority striving to impose its ideals on a minority that possesses an utterly different vision of the good life . 28 Skowronek , Building a New American State , 178 . the national government could enforce whatever it wanted to enforce.
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... majority party sitting on that committee functioned as the leaders of their house ; their ability to dispense and withhold patronage was a decisive mecha- nism of party discipline . By 1900 , in contrast , the appropriations power in ...
... majority party sitting on that committee functioned as the leaders of their house ; their ability to dispense and withhold patronage was a decisive mecha- nism of party discipline . By 1900 , in contrast , the appropriations power in ...
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... majority of the people should have power to make the political program of the majority effective . The radical Republicans who had won the Civil War and dominated Congress during Reconstruction had such power , and they used it . In ...
... majority of the people should have power to make the political program of the majority effective . The radical Republicans who had won the Civil War and dominated Congress during Reconstruction had such power , and they used it . In ...
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... majority's beliefs . 34 Similarly , Republicans in Congress have attacked the fragmentation of power in their own branch of government by adopting a party rule prohibiting its members from serving as chairperson of a committee for ...
... majority's beliefs . 34 Similarly , Republicans in Congress have attacked the fragmentation of power in their own branch of government by adopting a party rule prohibiting its members from serving as chairperson of a committee for ...
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