1st Edition
Rhetoric And Reality Presidential Commissions And The Making Of Public Policy
By Terrence R Tutchings
Copyright 1980
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since 1945, the role of the president in shaping domestic and foreign policy has changed dramatically. Though the prodigious growth of the federal bureaucracy under the Executive Branch reflects much of this change, bureaucratic response to the major issues of the past three decades has been ineffective or nonexistent, and a notable parallel development has been the increasing use of public... Read more
Preface -- The President and Public Policy -- The Organizational Dynamics of Policy Commissions -- Policy Elites -- Policy Outputs: Commission Recommendations -- Policy Results: Presidential Action and Congressional Response -- Two Models: One of Rhetoric and One of Reality -- Toward More-Public Rhetoric -- Presidential Advisory Commissions -- Coding Procedure
Biography
Terrence R. Tutchings is adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and executive associate at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
