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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?
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An Overview of the Bush Bureaucracy
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Control and Constraints in Cabinet Agencies
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Regulation of Business in the MBA Presidency
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An Assessment of George W. Bush’s Policy Management
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About this book
Reviews
"This book provides an important and original collection of essays about the development of the federal bureaucracy during the George W Bush administration. The editors have gathered contributions from leading scholars of the study of bureaucracy and the resultant collection brims with meticulous new research and theoretical insight. The volume will become a key text for scholarly understanding this period in American political development. I recommend it highly." - Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University
"Focusing upon aspects of President Bush's domestic policy that have received less attention than his foreign, security, and judicial policy, Colin Provost and Paul Teske ask what effects the President's expansive view of executive power has had on policy making and policy outcomes. They and their able contributors find complex patterns of agency resistance, inertia, congressional politics, and implementation failures of a kind that make Mr. Bush's presidency often less radical in its policy effectiveness than in its policy initiatives, and less completely disruptive adeparture from its predecessors than either its proponents or critics have sometimes claimed. This is a fine and welcome book on a fundamental problem in and with American politics and public policy which deservesto be widely read." - Nigel Bowles, University Lecturer and Balfour Fellow in Politics, St. Anne's College, Oxford University
"This volume, based on a conference held at the University of Oxford, brings together papers that focus on the George W. Bush administration's efforts to gain control over the American federal bureaucracy. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of the administration's drive to appoint officials in sync with the administration's policy objectives. They also examine the impact of these personnel on policy administration, and find that changes in top personnel do not always ensure the expected outcomes. Students of administrative politics and readers interested in the sorry history of the Bush years will find this book a source of useful information and provocative interpretations of the results of the administration's efforts." - Joel Aberbach, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, UCLA
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Public Policy, University College, London, UK
Colin Provost
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School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, USA
Paul Teske
About the editors
COLIN PROVOST is Lecturer at University College of London, UK.
PAUL TESKE is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: President George W. Bush's Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy
Book Subtitle: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers
Editors: Colin Provost, Paul Teske
Series Title: The Evolving American Presidency
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620162
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60954-9Published: 19 May 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62016-2Published: 30 March 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-6150
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6169
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 272
Topics: European Politics, Political Science