In Bureaucracy's Masters and Minions the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency's internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Bureaucracy as a Whipping Boy for Politicians and Citizens Alike
Chapter 2: A Survey on Bureaucratic Control Mechanisms
Chapter 3: The Business of Agency Budgeting: Incrementalism
Chapter 4: Reflecting, Refining and Revising the Principal-Agent Approach: an Agent-Principal Model
Chapter 5: Using an Agent-Principal Model to Test Who Controls the U. S. Bureaucracy
Chapter 6: Elite Education: Understanding the Dynamics of K-12 Education Policy Changes
Chapter 7: Bureaucratic Control, Intransigence, and Fortitude