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Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999 - Hardcover
Synopsis
Since 1946, Congress has played an increasingly expanded role in federal administration. David H. Rosenbloom describes the evolution of the relationship between federal agencies and Congress, creating a better understanding of current administrative issues that have caused some to call for a reinvention of government.
In the 1930s and early 1940s, the New Deal and World War II rapidly transformed the size and scope of the federal administration. By 1946, Congress had reluctantly accepted the likelihood that the growing complexity of public policy would require it to delegate more and more legislative authority to the agencies, but it was unwilling to abdicate that authority altogether. Instead, it passed several statutes that allowed agencies to become extensions of Congress and that gave Congress supervision over these agencies on a continuing basis.
In the resulting legislative-centered public administration, Rosenbloom demonstrates, the orthodox managerial values of efficiency, economy, and internal organizational effectiveness are sometimes subordinated to the congressional values of responsiveness, openness, and public accountability.
According to Rosenbloom, it is a misperception of these values that causes some to condemn legislative "micromanagement" of the agencies and call for reform -- reform efforts that ultimately fail because of a lack of understanding of Congress's historical and contemporary role in the federal bureaucracy.
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About the Author
David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at American University in Washington, D.C., and winner of the 1999 Dwight Waldo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career. He has written, co-authored, or edited 20 books, including Personnel Management in Government, now in its fifth edition.
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"This book presents a fresh and insightful approach to public administration that is solidly grounded in the American constitutional tradition."—John A. Rohr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"This book is unique in its superb analysis of 1946 and post-1946 congressional reforms that so heavily impacted the character and content of national administration. The notion of 'legislative-centered' public administration, which Rosenbloom develops in masterful fashion, has been a neglected one―but no longer." ― William Stewart, The University of Alabama
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