Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency : the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 /
Lee, Mordecai,1948-
College Station : Texas A&M University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.
Why study the Bureau of Efficiency? -- Origins -- Inventing a central staff agency : congress proposes, the president disposes -- An administrative sketch of the bureau -- A staff agency at work -- A presidential staff agency -- A congressional staff agency -- Terminating the bureau : congress proposes, the president disposes -- Assessing the first federal staff agency.
United States. Bureau of Efficiency
Civil service
Industrial efficiency
Executive departments