President George W. Bush’s Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Personnel Is Policy: George W. Bush’s Managerial Presidency....Pages 19-40
Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under “43”....Pages 41-59
Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era....Pages 61-79
Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency....Pages 81-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy, and No State Left Behind....Pages 105-121
The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security....Pages 123-146
Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limits of Presidential Policy Control....Pages 147-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Flying under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency....Pages 169-186
Efficiency, Enforcement, and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission....Pages 187-201
Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission....Pages 203-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Evaluating Policy in the Bush II Presidency....Pages 221-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-272