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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... organized around the party had given way to a new system organized around a constitutional stalemate . " 23 Building a New American State was published in 1982 , which means it must have been written largely prior to Executive Order ...
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