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Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design - Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997 (Hardcover)
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Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design - Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997 (Hardcover)
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The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in
the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy
mandates of Congress, the president, and courts are translated into
real public policy in the bureaucracy. As the role of the national
government has expanded, the national legislature and executive
have increasingly delegated authority to administrative agencies to
make fundamental policy decisions. How this administrative state is
designed, its coherence, its responsiveness, and its efficacy
determine, in Robert Dahl's phrase, "who gets what, when, and how."
This study of agency design, thus, has implications for the study
of politics in many areas. The structure of bureaucracies can
determine the degree to which political actors can change the
direction of agency policy. Politicians frequently attempt to lock
their policy preferences into place through insulating structures
that are mandated by statute or executive decree. This insulation
of public bureaucracies such as the National Transportation Safety
Board, the Federal Election Commission, and the National Nuclear
Security Administration, is essential to understanding both
administrative policy outputs and executive-legislative politics in
the United States. This book explains why, when, and how political
actors create administrative agencies in such a way as to insulate
them from political control, particularly presidential control.
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