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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Mordecai, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.