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What Motivates Bureaucrats?: Politics and Administration During the Reagan Years Paperback - 2000

by Marissa Martino Golden


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"Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" --Ronald Reagan How did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control over the bureaucracy? What issues molded their reactions? What motivates civil servants in general? How should they be managed and how do they affect federal policies? To answer these questions, Marissa Martino Golden offers us a glimpse into the world of our federal agencies. What Motivates Bureaucrats? tells the story of a group of upper-level career civil servants in the Reagan administration at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the Food and Nutrition Service, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The book reveals that most career civil servants were usually responsive to executive direction--even with a president attempting to turn agency policy 180 degrees from its past orientation. By delving deeply into the particular details of Reagan's intervention into the affairs of upper-level career civil servants, Golden also fulfills her broader mission of improving our understanding of bureaucratic behavior in general, explaining why the bureaucracy is controllable and highlighting the limits of that control.

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Imagine that you are a career civil servant, a GS-15, and that you work for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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How did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control over the bureaucracy? What issues molded their reactions? What motivates civil servants in general? How should they be managed and how do they affect federal policies? To answer these questions, Marissa Martino Golden offers us a glimpse into the world of our federal agencies.

WHAT MOTIVATES BUREAUCRATS? tells the story of a group of upper-level career civil servants in the Reagan administration at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the Food and Nutrition Service, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The book reveals that most career civil servants were usually responsive to executive direction -- even with a president attempting to turn agency policy 180 degrees from its past orientation.

By delving deeply into the particular details of reagan's intervention into the affairs of upper-level career civil servants, Golden also fulfills her broader mission of improving our understanding of bureaucratic behavior in general, explaining why the bureaucracy is controllable and highlighting the limits of that control.

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  • Title What Motivates Bureaucrats?: Politics and Administration During the Reagan Years
  • Author Marissa Martino Golden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-11-01
  • ISBN 9780231106979 / 0231106971
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.53 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Government executives - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00027260
  • Dewey Decimal Code 352

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  • Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1694

About the author

Marissa Martino Golden is assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. She received the Leonard D. White Award from the American Political Science Association for the work upon which this book is based.
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