Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency [electronic resource] : the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 / Mordecai Lee.

By: Lee, Mordecai, 1948-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studiesPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 241 p. : illISBN: 9781603445351 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): United States. Bureau of Efficiency -- History | Civil service -- United States -- Personnel management | Industrial efficiency -- United States | Executive departments -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 352.3/75097309042 LOC classification: JK691 | .L44 2006Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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