Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions
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Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions

The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions

The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy

About this book

In Bureaucracy's Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency's internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization. Through a revised principal-agent framework, the author explores an agent-principal model to use the agent as the starting-point of analysis. The author tests the agent-principal model across 14 years and 132 bureaus and finds that both the president and the House of Representatives exert influence over the bureaucracy, but agency characteristics such as the degree of politization among the workforce, the type of work the agency is engaged in, and the hierarchical nature of the agency affects how agencies are controlled by their political masters. In a detailed case study of one agency, the U.S. Department of Education, the author finds that education policy over a 65-year period is elite-led, and that that hierarchical nature of the department conditions political principals' influence. This book works to overcome three hurdles that have plagued bureaucratic studies: the difficulty of uniform sampling across the bureaucracy, the overuse of case studies, and the overreliance on the principal-agent theoretical approach.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Bureaucracy as a Whipping Boy for Politicians and Citizens Alike
  10. 2 A Survey of Bureaucratic Control Mechanisms
  11. 3 The Business of Agency Budgeting: Incrementalism
  12. 4 Reflecting, Refining, and Revising the Principal-Agent Approach: An Agent-Principal Model
  13. 5 Using an Agent-Principal Model to Test Who Controls the U.S. Bureaucracy
  14. 6 Elites’ Influence on Education Policy: Understanding the Dynamics of K-12 Educational Policy Changes
  15. 7 Bureaucratic Control, Intransigence, and Fortitude
  16. Appendix A: Average Levels of Managers in Bureaus from 2000 to 2014
  17. Appendix B: Average Levels of Political Appointees in Bureaus from 2000 to 2014
  18. Appendix C: Average Levels of Policy Work among Bureau Workforce 2000 to 2014
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author