Based on a conference entitled "Politics and policy making in the Bush administration federal bureaucracy" held at Oxford University, June 21-23, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-254) and index.
Contents:
Extraordinary powers, extraordinary policies? / Colin Provost and Paul Teske -- Personnel is policy : George W. Bush's managerial presidency / David E. Lewis -- Is the Bush bureaucracy any different? : a macro-empirical examination of notice and comment rulemaking under "43" / Susan Webb Yackee and Jason Webb Yackee -- Presidential attention to independent regulators in the Bush era / Andrew B. Whitford -- Coordinated action and the limits of presidential control over the bureaucracy : lessons from the Bush presidency / George A. Krause and Brent M. Dupay -- President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education : the Texas mafia, scientific education policy and No state left behind / Paul Teske -- The paradox of agency issue attention : the Bush administration and homeland security / Peter J. May and Samuel Workman -- Policy dominance versus policy success : homeland security and the limitations of presidential policy control / Brian J. Gerber -- Flying under the radar? : political control and bureaucratic resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency / Colin Provost, Brian J. Gerber, and Mark Pickup -- Efficiency, enforcement, and political control : the case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission / Sean Nicholson-Crotty and Jill Nicholson-Crotty -- Maintaining political control : George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission / Richard W. Waterman -- Evaluating policy in the Bush II presidency / Colin Provost.
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