Regulation in the White House : The Johnson Presidency / David M. Welborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welborn, David M., Author.

Contributor:

Anderson, James E., Contributor.

Redford, Emmette S., Contributor.

Welborn, David M., Contributor.

Series:

An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Regulation in the White House is an examination of regulatory policy and its development in the Johnson administration and the first comprehensive study of any presidency and regulation. Based upon a thorough analysis of presidential papers in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, the book investigates the working relationships linking the presidency, regulatory commissions, and executive agencies with regulatory responsibilities in both the economic and social spheres. David Welborn finds that the president's business included regulation as a major component. Johnson's concerns in regulation were varied and complex. He and his aides worked assiduously and successfully to establish effective, cooperative relationships with regulators and to avoid the exercise of undue influence on particular regulatory determinations. In Welborn's view, Johnson traversed the treacherous ground of regulatory politics with adeptness and achieved his major purposes in regulation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. The President's Business

2. The Fourth Branch

3. Attending to Commission Regulation

4. Executive Regulation

5. Tenuous Ties: The Case of Antitrust Enforcement I

6. Further Explorations of Policy

7. Grappling with Regulation

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780292766853

0292766858