Research Catalog

Title

Administrative renewal : reorganization commissions in the 20th century / Ronald C. Moe.

Author

Moe, Ronald C.

Publication

Lanham : University Press of America, ©2003.

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Details

Description

x, 154 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In Administrative Renewal, the periodic efforts to reorganize the executive branch during the 20th century are examined and analyzed. Receiving special attention are the landmark commissions, such as the Hoover Commissions of mid-century, to determine how they influenced the theory and practice of democratic administration.

Subject

• Geschichte 1900-2000
• Administrative agencies > United States > Management
• Organizational change > United States
• Administrative agencies > Management
• Organizational change
• Verwaltungsreform
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-149) and index.

Contents

Evolving Theoretical Foundations of the Executive Branch -- The Federalist Creation -- Organizational Management in the 19th Century -- Progressivism and Its Values -- Rise and Decline of Orthodoxy -- Heterodoxy: Deconstructing the State -- New Public Management: Entrepreneurs Versus Constitutionalists -- Landmark Commissions -- Keep Commission (1905-1909) -- President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency (1910-1913) -- Joint Committee on Reorganization (1921-1924) -- Reorganization Authority (1930-1933) -- President's Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee), 1936-1937 -- Reorganization Authority: 1939, 1945 Acts -- First Hoover Commission (1947-1949) -- Reorganization Act of 1949 -- Second Hoover Commission (1953-1955) -- Study Task Forces on Executive Reorganization (1953-1968) -- President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization (Ash Council) (1969-1970) -- President's Reorganization Project (1977-1979) -- Reorganization Act of 1977 -- President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission) (1982-1984) -- Reorganization Act of 1984 -- National Performance Review (1993-1997) National Partnership for Reinventing Government (1997-2000) -- The Future of Reorganization Commissions.

ISBN

• 0761825444
• 9780761825449
• 0761825436
• 9780761825432

LCCN

2003048429

OCLC

• ocm51983595
• 51983595
• SCSB-9239605

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library