| Organizing the Presidency Contributor(s): Hess, Stephen (Author), Pfiffner, James P. (Created by) |
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ISBN: 0815736371 ISBN-13: 9780815736370 Publisher: Brookings Institution Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than fifty people. In the ensuing years, as the United States became a world power and both the foreign and domestic duties of the president grew more complex, the White House staff has increased twentyfold. This books asks how best to manage a presidency that itself has become a bureaucracy. In the third edition of Organizing the Presidency, Stephen Hess, with the assistance of James P. Pfiffner, surveys presidential organizations from Roosevelts to George W. Bushs, examining the changing responsibilities of the executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, Capitol Hill, and the permanent government. He also describes the kinds of people who have filled these positions and the intentions of the presidents who appointed them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Political Science | American Government - Executive Branch |
| Dewey: 352.209 |
| LCCN: 2002011827 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.52" W x 9.18" (0.91 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than fifty people. In the ensuing years, as the United States became a world power and both the foreign and domestic duties of the president grew more complex, the White House staff has increased twentyfold. This books asks how best to manage a presidency that itself has become a bureaucracy. In the third edition of Organizing the Presidency, Stephen Hess, with the assistance of James P. Pfiffner, surveys presidential organizations from Roosevelt s to George W. Bush s, examining the changing responsibilities of the executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, Capitol Hill, and the permanent government. He also describes the kinds of people who have filled these positions and the intentions of the presidents who appointed them. |