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Golden Marissa Martino |
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What motivates bureaucrats? : politics and administration during the Reagan years / / Marissa Martino Golden |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Power, conflict, and democracy |
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Government executives - United States |
United States Politics and government 1981-1989 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Bureaucratic Responsiveness and the Administrative Presidency -- 2. A Framework for Analysis -- 3. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Car Nuts and Caution -- 4. The Food and Nutrition Service: Limited Opportunity, Limited Resistance -- 5. The Civil Rights Division: Lawyers Who Love to Argue -- 6. The Environmental Protection Agency: A Tale of Two Reagan Administrations -- 7. Lessons from the Reagan Years -- Appendix A. Sample Interview Schedule -- Appendix B. Sample Federal Employee Questionnaire -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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"Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" -Ronald ReaganHow did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control over the bureaucracy? What issues molded their reactions? What motivates civil servants in general? How should they be managed and how do they affect federal policies? To answer these questions, Marissa Martino Golden offers us a glimpse into the world of our federal agencies. What Motivates Bureaucrats? tells the story of a group of upper-level career civil servants in the Reagan administration at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the Food and Nutrition Service, and the National Highway Traffic Safety |
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