"Presidentializing" the Bureaucracy

The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Durant, Robert F ^a   Resh, William G ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative presidency; America; Federal bureaucracy; Policy implementation; Presidency; Presidentializing; Public administration; Public management; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066588235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238958.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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