Bitter Harvest - FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch

List of contents

Part I. Presidential Power and Presidential Staff: Concepts and Controversies: Introduction: the fruits of his labor? FDR and the growth of the presidential branch; 1. Bitter harvest: the presidential branch and the Iran-Contra Affair; Part II. From Cabinet to Presidential Government, 1933-1939: 2. Creating the resource gap: bargaining costs and the first New Deal, 1933-1935; 3. The President needs help: the Brownlow Committee frames the Roosevelt Response; Part III. Testing the System: The War Years 1939-1945: 4. Preparing for war: economic mobilization; 5. Managing war production; 6. FDR and the rise of the National Security Bureaucracy; 7. The Commander-in-Chief; Part IV. Lessons and Considerations: 8. Competitive adhocracy: the principles and theoretical implications of FDR's staff use; Epilogue: Roosevelt Redux?: a research agenda; Bibliography.

Summary

This book argues that modern presidents could learn much from Franklin Roosevelt's method of organizing his presidency. Roosevelt consciously avoided a large, functionally-specialized White House bureaucracy. Instead, he developed staff agencies composed mostly of civil servants.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew J. Dickinson, Dickinson Matthew J.
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.1999
• EAN: 9780521653954
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65395-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government