This book investigates the methods used by the Bush Administration to control bureaucratic agencies, including executive orders, signing directives, political appointments, and others, as well as the effects those methods have had on agency outputs.

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COLIN PROVOST is Lecturer at University College of London, UK.
PAUL TESKE ****is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.

Inhalt
Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?; C.Provost & P.Teske PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUSH BUREAUCRACY Personnel is Policy: George W. Bush's Managerial Presidency; D.E.Lewis Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking Under '43'; S.Webb Yackee & J.Webb Yackee Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era; A.B.Whitford Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control Over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency; G.A.Krause & B.M.Dupay PART II: CONTROL AND CONSTRAINTS IN CABINET AGENCIES President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy and No State Left Behind; P.Teske The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security; P.J.May & S.Workman Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limitations of Presidential Policy Control; B.J.Gerber PART II: CONTROL AND CONSTRAINTS IN CABINET AGENCIES Flying Under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency; C.Provost , B.J.Gerber & M.Pickup Efficiency, Enforcement and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; S.Nicholson-Crotty & J.Nicholson-Crotty Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; R.W.Waterman PART IV: AN ASSESSMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH'S POLICY MANAGEMENT Evaluating Policy in the Bush II President; C.Provost