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The forging of bureaucratic autonomy, reputations, networks, and policy innovation in executive agencies, 1862-1928, Daniel P. Carpenter

Label
The forging of bureaucratic autonomy, reputations, networks, and policy innovation in executive agencies, 1862-1928, Daniel P. Carpenter
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The forging of bureaucratic autonomy
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
47120319
Responsibility statement
Daniel P. Carpenter
Sub title
reputations, networks, and policy innovation in executive agencies, 1862-1928
Table Of Contents
Entrepreneurship, networked legitimacy, and autonomy -- The clerical state: obstacles to bureaucratic autonomy in nineteenth-century America -- The Railway Mail, Comstockery, and the waning of the old postal regime, 1862-4 -- Organizational renewal and policy innovation in the National Postal System, 180-110 -- The triumph of the moral economy: finance, parcels, and the labor dilemma in the post office, 108-24 -- Science in the service of seeds: the USDA, 1862-100 -- From seeds to science: the USDA as university, 187-117 -- Multiple networks and the autonomy of bureaus: departures in food, pharmaceutical, and forestry policy, 187-113 -- Brokerage and bureaucratic policymaking: the cementing of autonomy at the USDA, 114-28 -- Structure, reputation, and the bureaucratic failure of reclamation policy, 102-14 -- Conclusion: the politics of bureaucratic autonomy
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