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Learning while governing : expertise and accountability in the executive branch / Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gailmard, Sean.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in American politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executive departments--United States.
- Executive departments.
- Government accountability.
- United States.
- Government accountability--United States.
- Civil service--United States.
- Civil service.
- Physical Description:
- pages. cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political science and public administration: How do Congress and the president ensure that bureaucratic agencies implement their preferred policies?
- The assumption has long been that bureaucrats bring to their positions expertise, which must then be marshaled to serve the interests of a particular policy. In Learning While Governing, Gailmard and Patty overturn this conventional wisdom, showing instead that much of what bureaucrats need to know to perform effectively is learned on the job. Bureaucratic expertise, they argue, is a function of administrative institutions and interactions with political authorities that collectively create an incentive for bureaucrats to develop expertise. The challenge for elected officials is therefore to provide agencies with the autonomy to do so while making sure they do not stray significantly from the administration's course.
- Learning While Governing uncovers the information processes that have shaped the power relations between Congress, the president, and the executive agencies. It will recast our understanding of bureaucratic development. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acquiring information
- Developing administrative expertise
- Expertise and deference
- The federal civil service
- Sharing information
- Agents for policy advice under separation of powers
- Congressional development of the institutional presidency
- Eliciting information
- Information, regulated interests, and administrative policymaking
- The SEC and the regulation of finance.
- ISBN:
- 9780226924403
- 0226924408
- 9780226924410
- 0226924416
- OCLC:
- 783150244
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