West, William (2015) US presidents exercise centralized control over thebureaucracy primarily through reactive oversight. USApp– American Politics and Policy Blog (10 Aug 2015). Website.
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Abstract
More than 2.5 million people work across the entire executive branch of the US government in hundreds of agencies and commissions. William West takes an in-depth look at how the President is able to oversee this vast bureaucracy. He writes that centralized influence over agency policy making is mostly reactive and based around the practice of regulatory review. He argues that Presidents lack the organizational capacity to monitor and influence what agencies do in more than a selective way, and that this reactive strategy allows the White House to focus its limited resources on agency initiatives that are problematic while ignoring the majority that are not.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2015 11:40 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 19:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63617 |
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