A government of strangers : executive politics in Washington /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington :
Brookings Institution,
©1977.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.17497053 |
Table of Contents:
- People in Government
- What Is at Stake
- The Search for Political Leadership
- The Idea of Civil Service: A Third Force?
- Setting: The Executive Melange
- Who's Who?
- Trends
- Results
- Political Executives: A Government of Strangers
- The Political Executive System
- The Selection Process
- Characteristics of Political Executives
- A Summary and Look Forward
- Bureaucrats: People in the Machine
- The Higher Career System
- Job Protection
- Bureaucratic Dispositions
- Working Relations: The Preliminaries
- Self-Help: The Starting Point
- Self-Help Is Not Enough
- Whom Do You Trust?
- Working Relations: The Main Event
- Using Strategic Resources
- Using People
- Mutual Support and Its Limits
- Doing Better: Policies for Governing Policymakers
- The Case for Reform
- The Shape of Reform
- A Third Force: The Federal Service
- Costs and Prospects
- Approximate Number of Noncareer and Career Positions, U.S. Government, by Rank, 1975-76
- Postwar Growth of U.S. Congressional Staffs
- Previous Government Experience of Incumbent Assistant Secretaries for Administration, Selected Years, 1954-74
- Government Experience of Bureau of the Budget/Office of Management and Budget Executive Personnel, 1953, 1960, and 1974
- Full-Time Political Appointments in the Executive Branch, June 1976
- Political Executives' Years of Experience in the Federal Government, 1970
- Tenure of Political Executives, 1960-72
- How Career Executive Positions Have Been Filled before and after 1967 Reforms
- Political and Career Executive Positions in the Department of Commerce and in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, June 10, 1974
- Management Organization of the Department of the Interior, 1924 and 1976
- Index of the Growth of Mid-Level Executive Positions and Federal Civilian Employment, 1961-74
- Procedures for Hiring a Career Executive.