Administrative renewal : reorganization commissions in the 20th century / Ronald C. Moe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moe, Ronald C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--United States--Management.

Administrative agencies.

United States.

Management.

Organizational change--United States.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

x, 154 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Summary:

In Administrative Renewal, the periodic efforts to reorganize the executive branch during the 20th century are examined and analyzed. Receiving special attention are the landmark commissions, such as the Hoover Commissions of mid-century, to determine how they influenced the theory and practice of democratic administration.

Contents:

Evolving Theoretical Foundations of the Executive Branch 5

The Federalist Creation 5

Organizational Management in the 19th Century 9

Progressivism and Its Values 12

Rise and Decline of Orthodoxy 16

Heterodoxy: Deconstructing the State 19

New Public Management: Entrepreneurs Versus Constitutionalists 20

Landmark Commissions 25

Keep Commission (1905-1909) 26

President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency (1910-1913) 31

Joint Committee on Reorganization (1921-1924) 37

Reorganization Authority (1930-1933) 45

President's Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee), 1936-1937 48

Reorganization Authority: 1939, 1945 Acts 55

First Hoover Commission (1947-1949) 57

Reorganization Act of 1949 69

Second Hoover Commission (1953-1955) 73

Study Task Forces on Executive Reorganization (1953-1968) 80

President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization (Ash Council) (1969-1970) 84

President's Reorganization Project (1977-1979) 93

Reorganization Act of 1977 101

President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission) (1982-1984) 106

Reorganization Act of 1984 112

National Performance Review (1993-1997) National Partnership for Reinventing Government (1997-2000) 115

The Future of Reorganization Commissions 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-149) and index.

ISBN:

0761825436

0761825444

OCLC:

51983595