Bitter Harvest - FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch (Paperback, New ed)

Bitter Harvest identifies the principles governing Franklin Roosevelt's development and use of a presidential staff system and offers a theory explaining why those principles proved so effective. Dickinson argues that presidents institutionalize staff to acquire the information and expertise necessary to better predict the likely impact their specific bargaining choices will have on the end results they desire. Once institutionalized, however, presidential staff must be managed. Roosevelt's use of competitive administrative techniques minimized his staff management costs, while his institutionalization of nonpartisan staff agencies provided him with needed information. Matthew Dickinson's research suggests that FDR's principles could be used today to manage the White House staff-dominated institutional presidency upon which most of his presidential successors have relied.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1997
Authors:	Matthew J. Dickinson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	284
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-65395-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-521-65395-9
Barcode:	9780521653954

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