Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency

Lee, Mordecai, 1948-

Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 / [electronic resource] : Mordecai Lee. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006. - xii, 241 p. : ill. - Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership . - Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.

Why study the Bureau of Efficiency? -- Origins -- Inventing a central staff agency : congress proposes, the president disposes -- An administrative sketch of the bureau -- A staff agency at work -- A presidential staff agency -- A congressional staff agency -- Terminating the bureau : congress proposes, the president disposes -- Assessing the first federal staff agency.


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United States. Bureau of Efficiency --History.


Civil service--Personnel management.--United States
Industrial efficiency--United States.
Executive departments--United States.


Electronic books.

JK691 / .L44 2006eb

352.3/75097309042