Perhaps the most significant contribution of the book is its detailed development of the concept of rhetorical policy as a first step in the policymaking process.

This annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 entries, current through 1977, sheds light on the national planning idea as a substantive issue in past, present, and future U.S. public policy; presents a bibliographic structure that suggests ...

This is a new kind of book on public management.

Using conversations, cases and original sources, this work engages with the key themes and problems of public management.

The first book to explore the tension between U.S. presidents and federal agencies from the perspective of careerists in the executive branch.

The first book to explore the tension between presidents and federal agencies from the perspective of careerists in the executive branch.