Research Catalog

Title

Managerial discretion in government decision making : beyond the street level / Jacqueline Vaughn, Eric E. Otenyo.

Author

Vaughn, Jacqueline.

Publication

Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Otenyo, Eric Edwin.

Description

xxiii, 171 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• United States > Politics and government
• Administrative discretion > United States
• Public administration > United States
• Administrative agencies > United States > Management
• Public administration > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-164) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Beyond street-level discourse -- Managerial and administrative discretion -- Perspectives on discretion in decision making -- Federalism and its place in understanding managerial discretion -- Limitations on state and local discretion -- From state and local discretion to unfunded federal mandates -- When stakes take over a federal responsibility : immigration -- Explaining managerial discretion -- Support for managerial discretion -- Opposition to managerial discretion -- The courts and managerial discretion -- Statutory and other types of constraints on discretion -- Ch. 2. Managerial discretion in local government -- Local government management -- Appointment and staffing powers -- Legislative processes -- Policy implementation -- Contracting -- Creating new departments -- Finance -- Managerial discretion at the county level -- Use of discretion by the County Sheriff -- Local managerial discretion and the courts -- A culture of corruption? -- Ch. 3. Managerial discretion at the state level -- Role of the governor -- Other duties -- When governors challenge the federal government -- Discretion and other state-level executives -- State boards and commissions -- Ch. 4. Managerial discretion at the federal level -- Presidential appointments -- Crises and managerial discretion -- The president and executive orders -- Executive privilege as discretion -- The power to veto -- Discretion within executive branch agencies -- Ch. 5. Discretion and managerial accountability -- Responsibility and accountability -- Elian Gonzalez and discretion in immigration cases -- Discretion and democracy -- Rulemaking -- The changing managerial climate -- Contemporary ideological influences on discretionary policymaking -- Clinton as liberal -- Bush as conservative.

ISBN

• 0763746568 (alk. paper)
• 9780763746568 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006025678
• 9780763746568

OCLC

• OCM70884958
• 70884958
• SCSB-5309537

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries