Making democracy work
Subtitle: a brief history of twentieth-century federal executive reorganization
By: by Brian Balogh, Joanna Grisinger and Philip Zelikow ; in consultation with Peri Arnold [and others]
Contributors: Grisinger, Joanna; Zelikow, Philip, 1954-; White Burkett Miller Center
Series: Miller Center working paper in American political development; Miller Center working paper in American political development
Publisher: Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Executive departments; Reorganization; Administrative agencies
Other titles: Brief history of twentieth-century federal executive reorganization
Description: "Making Democracy Work" is the first working paper in the Miller Center of Public Affairs series in American Political Development. It seeks to inform the current discussion of the proposed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through a better understanding of past efforts at executive reorganization and by identifying patterns that recur over time. This historical approach also identifies distinctions between the Homeland Security plan and past instances of reorganization. In short, it is the objective of this report to place what President George W. Bush has called "the most extensive reorganization of the Federal government since the 1940s" in historical context. We believe that a better grasp of history will allow participants in the debate to formulate a set of questions that engage past experience and expand the nation's ability to plan for a future that nobody can predict with any degree of certainty.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed Dec. 19, 2002).

"July 22, 2002."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-121).

Electronic book.

Also issued in paper format.

Electronic reproduction. Charlottesville, Va. : Miller Center for Public Affairs, 2002.

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Mode of access: Internet via the World Wide Web.