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Author : Randall B. Ripley,Grace A. Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008501713
Author : R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300025927
"An] excellent book ...Arnold seeks to examine the interactions between members of the House of Representatives and members of the upper bureaucracy in respect to the geographical allocation of federal expenditures....The methodology employed is ingenious and persuasive."--David Fellman, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "The best book now available on the decision-making process linking bureaucrats and congressmen....A model blending of theory and evidence, overlaid with a lot of good judgment and political sensitivity."--Richard F. Fenno, Jr. "Douglas Arnold's carefully wrought study of relations between the U.S. Representatives and selected administrative agencies is a challenging, thought-provoking, imaginative contribution that greatly enriches the field."--Herbert Kaufman "An indispensable book for political scientists studying Congress, and highly relevant for many others whose interest is in bureaucratic decision-making. The data and the methods of analysis are unique and make the work infinitely superior to previous work on this topic."--Samuel C. Patterson
Author : Mordecai Lee
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806184470
Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early on gained a foothold in the public’s esteem when President Theodore Roosevelt championed its conservation policies and Forest Service press releases led to favorable coverage and further goodwill. Congress has rarely approved of such bureaucratic independence. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, political scientist Mordecai Lee—who has served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a state senator—explores a century of congressional efforts to prevent government agencies from gaining support for their initiatives by communicating directly with the public. Through detailed case studies, Lee shows how federal agencies have used increasingly sophisticated publicity techniques to muster support for their activities—while Congress has passed laws to counter those PR efforts. The author first traces congressional resistance to Roosevelt’s campaigns to rally popular support for the Panama Canal project, then discusses the Forest Service, the War Department, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Agriculture. Lee’s analysis of more recent legislative bans on agency publicity in the George W. Bush administration reveals that political battles over PR persist to this day. Ultimately, despite Congress’s attempts to muzzle agency public relations, the bureaucracy usually wins. Opponents of agency PR have traditionally condemned it as propaganda, a sign of a mushrooming, self-serving bureaucracy, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. For government agencies, though, communication with the public is crucial to implementing their missions and surviving. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, Lee argues these conflicts are in fact healthy for America. They reflect a struggle for autonomy that shows our government’s system of checks and balances to be alive and working well.
Author : Morton H. Halperin,Priscilla Clapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815734109
The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy—civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers—and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. The revised edition includes new examples of bureaucratic politics from the past three decades, from Jimmy Carter's view of the State Department to conflicts between George W. Bush and the bureaucracy regarding Iraq. The second edition also includes a new analysis of Congress's role in the politics of foreign policymaking.
Author : Rachel Augustine Potter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226621883
Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than ninety percent of law is created by administrative rules issued by federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services, where unelected bureaucrats with particular policy goals and preferences respond to the incentives created by a complex, procedure-bound rulemaking process. With Bending the Rules, Rachel Augustine Potter shows that rulemaking is not the rote administrative activity it is commonly imagined to be but rather an intensely political activity in its own right. Because rulemaking occurs in a separation of powers system, bureaucrats are not free to implement their preferred policies unimpeded: the president, Congress, and the courts can all get involved in the process, often at the bidding of affected interest groups. However, rather than capitulating to demands, bureaucrats routinely employ “procedural politicking,” using their deep knowledge of the process to strategically insulate their proposals from political scrutiny and interference. Tracing the rulemaking process from when an agency first begins working on a rule to when it completes that regulatory action, Potter shows how bureaucrats use procedures to resist interference from Congress, the President, and the courts at each stage of the process. This exercise reveals that unelected bureaucrats wield considerable influence over the direction of public policy in the United States.
Author : Charles E. Jacob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : UOM:39015008968730
Study of politics processes and characteristics of public administration in the USA - covers historical aspects, government policy, political leadership, industrialization, agricultural policy, labour administration, social policy, social protection, national level defence, public interest therein, etc. References at the end of each chapter.
Author : Samuel Workman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107061101
This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.
Author : George A. Krause,Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472024043
This groundbreaking work provides a new and more accurate guide to the interactions of bureaucracies with other political institutions and the public at large."--Jacket.
Author : Arnold J. Meltsner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520378292
Who advises our policy makers in Washington? What brings these advisors to the federal bureaucracy and keeps them there? And how do their clients and the bureaucratic context influence the choices they make in selecting, defining, and working on problems of public policy? In the late 1960s, professional policy advisors—called policy analysts—began to emerge in the Washington bureaucracy. Their job: to provide information and advice about the consequences of choosing different policies. Arnold J. Meltsner examines the various roles they asumed and the ways in which their priorities and methods were affected by the people they advised and the bureaucratic environment. Drawing on interviews with analysts and using his own experience as a government consultant, Meltsner shows how political and organizational considerations extended the boundaries of the advisor's role in a way that went far beyond the analyst's own notions of what policy analysis was. As the profession began to take shape, there were few standards of external organizations to set expectations for the analyst's work. As advisors on the inside, many policy analysts became adept at writing speeches and memos and making political calculations. In short, they took on the folkways of the bureaucrat. This detailed and vivid account of the experiences of analysts in a government agency is written not only for students of the subject but for all those interested in the general processes of our government. By providing a picture of the roles and behavior of the policy analyst, Meltsner points out the predicaments facing those who try to improve the effectiveness of analytical expertise within the government. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Francis Edward Rourke
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000019701820
Author : Randall B. Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3962161
This book discusses the American national government and the environment government institutions are set up in. The author is also interested in how those institutions create public policy.
Author : Cornell G. Hooton
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076560048X
Examines relationships between bureaucracy and political executives from a behavioral perspective on organizations. An extended case study of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and shorter cases on the Federal Highway Administration and the Food and Nutrition Service offer evidence that the legal authority of political executives is a key factor in their ability to change the policy direction bureaucrats, challenging principal-agent models of bureaucracy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ronald N. Johnson,Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226401775
The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
Author : Glen Krutz,Sylvie Waskiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998479
Black & white print. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens. In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. In doing so, the approach seeks to provide instructors with ample opportunities to open discussions, extend and update concepts, and drive deeper engagement.
Author : Samuel Krislov,David H. Rosenbloom
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002272287