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Bring back the bureaucrats : why more federal workers will lead to better (and smaller!) government / John J. DiIulio Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DiIulio, John J., Jr., 1958- author.
- Series:
- New threats to freedom series.
- New Threats to Freedom Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Administrative agencies--United States--Management.
- Administrative agencies.
- Bureaucracy--United States.
- Bureaucracy.
- Civil service--United States.
- Civil service.
- Public administration--United States.
- Public administration.
- Government productivity--United States.
- Government productivity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America's most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America's big government actually works and why reforms that include adding a million more people to the federal workforce by 2035 might actually help to slow government's growth while improving its performance. Starting from the underreported reality that the size of the federal workforce hasn't increased since the early 1960's even though the federal budget has skyrocketed and the number of federal...
- Contents:
- Leviathan by proxy
- Big brother is outsourcing : leveraged government is not limited government
- The federal workforce is overloaded, not bloated : contracted, not privatized
- If we knew then what we know now
- Conclusion : more federal bureaucrats, less big/bad government
- The government we need for the things we want by E.J. Dionne Jr
- No cure for the sclerotic state by Charles Murray
- Epilogue : reply to E.J. Dionne Jr. and Charles Murray.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-166).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781599474687
- 1599474689
- OCLC:
- 890441344
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