President George W. Bush's Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers (The Evolving American Presidency)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
One: Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?......Page 18
Part I: An Overview of the Bush Bureaucracy......Page 34
Two: Personnel Is Policy: George W. Bush’s Managerial Presidency......Page 36
Three: Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under “43”......Page 58
Four: Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era......Page 78
Five: Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency......Page 98
Part II: Control and Constraints in Cabinet Agencies......Page 120
Six: President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy, and No State Left Behind......Page 122
Seven: The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security......Page 140
Eight: Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limits of Presidential Policy Control......Page 164
Part III: Regulation of Business in the MBA Presidency......Page 184
Nine: Flying under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency......Page 186
Ten: Efficiency, Enforcement, and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission......Page 204
Eleven: Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission......Page 220
Part IV: An Assessment of George W. Bush’s Policy Management......Page 236
Twelve: Evaluating Policy in the Bush II Presidency......Page 238
References......Page 250
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Y......Page 289