The executive branch
By: Joel D. Aberbach, Mark A. Peterson, editors
Contributors: Aberbach, Joel D; Peterson, Mark A; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Series: Institutions of American democracy series
Publisher: Oxford University Press; University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
Subjects: Executive departments -- United States
Notes: "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: General introduction : the executive branch as an institution of American democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan; title: Introduction : presidents and bureaucrats : the executive branch and American democracy / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson; title: The evolution of the presidency : between the promise and the fear / Scott C. James; title: The evolution of national bureaucracy in the United States / Daniel carpenter; title: Giving direction to government in comparative perspective / Richard Rose; title: Presidential elections and American democracy / Stephen J. Wayne; title: The executive office of the president : the paradox of politicization / Matthew J. Dickinson; title: Communicating from the White House : presidential narrowcasting and the national interest / Lawrence R. Jacobs; title: The person of the president, leadership, and greatness / Fred I. Greenstein; title: The complex organization of the executive branch : the legacies of competing approaches to administration / Colin Campbell; title: The federal public service : the people and the challenge / Patricia W. Ingraham; title: Caught in the middle : the president, Congress, and the political-bureaucratic system / Barry R. Weingast; title: Reforming the executive branch of the U.S. government / Donald F. Kettl; title: Executive power and political parties : the dilemmas of scale in American democracy / Sidney M. Milkis; title: The executive branch and the legislative process / Andrew Rudalevige; title: The courts, jurisprudence, and the executive branch / R. Shep Melnick; title: Federalism and the executive branch / Thomas Gais and James Fossett; title: Control and accountability : dilemmas of the executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson