Steering the elephant
Subtitle: how Washington works
By: edited by Robert Rector and Michael Sanera ; with a foreword by Aaron Wildavsky.
Contributors: Rector, Robert.; Sanera, Michael.
Publisher: Universe Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.; Bureaucracy -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Description: From Publishers Weekly
This collection is for those who are curious about the problems faced by Reagan-administration appointees as they have tried to change the vast bureaucracies within the federal government's executive branch. In 27 articles based on a Heritage Foundation training program for presidential appointees, such conservative figures as Jeane Kirkpatrick, Tom Pauken and Morton Blackwell describe the clash between the administration's policies and the established patterns of agency bureaucrats (the "permanent government"), and outline strategies needed to overcome such obstacles. The pieces include case histories of recent events at the FCC, Legal Services Corporation and Small Business Administration, among other agencies. There's plenty of realistic advice on media relations, coalition-building, etc., for future Washington administrations, conservative or liberal.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.