Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in

Congressional supervision of the way the executive implements legislative mandates-"oversight" of the bureaucracy-is one of the most complex and least understoo

This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important

"ÝAn¨ excellent book .Arnold seeks to examine the interactions between members of the House of Representatives and members of the upper bureaucracy in respect