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