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Author Lee, Mordecai, 1948-

Title Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency [electronic resource] : the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 / Mordecai Lee.

Imprint College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 241 p. : ill.
Series Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership
Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.
Contents Why study the Bureau of Efficiency? -- Origins -- Inventing a central staff agency : congress proposes, the president disposes -- An administrative sketch of the bureau -- A staff agency at work -- A presidential staff agency -- A congressional staff agency -- Terminating the bureau : congress proposes, the president disposes -- Assessing the first federal staff agency.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Bureau of Efficiency -- History.
Civil service -- United States -- Personnel management.
Industrial efficiency -- United States.
Executive departments -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781585445486 (cloth : alk. paper)
1585445487 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603445351 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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