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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810512903321

Autore

Lee Mordecai <1948->

Titolo

Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency [[electronic resource] ] : the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 / / Mordecai Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-299-05295-9

1-60344-535-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership

Disciplina

352.3/75097309042

Soggetti

Civil service - United States - Personnel management

Industrial efficiency - United States

Executive departments - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.