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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Mordecai, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies.
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Efficiency > History.
Executive departments > United States.
Industrial efficiency > United States.
Civil service > United States > Personnel management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.