Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design
Subtitle: Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780804745888
Subjects: Central government; Constitution: government & the state; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Politics and government; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - National; Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / General; Administrative agencies; Bureaucracy; Presidents
First sentence: In 1938, Senator Harry S Truman (D-Mo.) argued that the Interstate Commerce Commission should regulate the nation's waterways in addition to its railways.