What Motivates Bureaucrats? : : Politics and Administration During the Reagan Years / / Marissa Martino Golden.

"Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" -Ronald ReaganHow did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Bureaucratic Responsiveness and the Administrative Presidency
  • 2. A Framework for Analysis
  • 3. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Car Nuts and Caution
  • 4. The Food and Nutrition Service: Limited Opportunity, Limited Resistance
  • 5. The Civil Rights Division: Lawyers Who Love to Argue
  • 6. The Environmental Protection Agency: A Tale of Two Reagan Administrations
  • 7. Lessons from the Reagan Years
  • Appendix A. Sample Interview Schedule
  • Appendix B. Sample Federal Employee Questionnaire
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index