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Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency : the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 /

"In this first full study of the Bureau of Efficiency, Mordecai Lee offers both a chronological history of the agency and a thematic treatment of the structure, staffing, and work processes of the bureau; its substantive activities; and its effects on the development of both the executive and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Mordecai, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why study the Bureau of Efficiency?
  • Origins
  • Inventing a central staff agency : congress proposes, the president disposes
  • An administrative sketch of the bureau
  • A staff agency at work
  • A presidential staff agency
  • A congressional staff agency
  • Terminating the bureau : congress proposes, the president disposes
  • Assessing the first federal staff agency.