The executive branch

DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Executive Branch as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy INTRODUCTION: Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American Democracy SECTION I: THE HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXT 1. The Evolution of the Presidency: Between the Promise and the Fear 2. The Evolution of National Bureaucracy in the United States 3. Giving Direction to Government in Comparative Perspective SECTION II: PRESIDENTIAL BEHAVIOR AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE PRESIDENCY 4. Presidential Elections and American Democracy 5. The Executive Office of the President: The Paradox of Politicization 6. Communicating from the White House: Presidential Narrowcasting and the National Interest 7. The Person of the President, Leadership, and Greatness SECTION III: THE PEOPLE AND POLITICS OF THE EXECUTIVE AGENCIES 8. The Complex Organization of the Executive Branch: The Legacies of Competing Approaches to Administration 9. The Federal Public Service: The People and the Challenge 10. Caught in the Middle: The President, Congress, and the Political-Bureaucratic System 11. Reforming the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government SECTION IV: THE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE AGENCIES, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF POLICY MAKING 12. Executive Power and Political Parties: The Dilemmas of Scale in American Democracy 13. The Executive Branch and the Legislative Process 14. The Courts, Jurisprudence, and the Executive Branch 15. Federalism and the Executive Branch SECTION V: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH 16. Control and Accountability: Dilemmas of the Executive Branch INDEX