The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
Subtitle: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780691070100
Subjects: Central government; History of specific subjects; Political structures: democracy; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Political Process - General; Government executives; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Affairs & Administration; Politics/International Relations; USA; History & Theory - General; American History; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science and International Relations; Executive departments; Bureaucracy; Congress; History; United States
First sentence: WHETHER CELEBRATED or lamented, bureaucratic autonomy prevails when politically differentiated agencies take sustained patterns of action consistent with their own wishes, patterns that will not be checked or reversed by elected authorities, organized interests, or courts.