The Brownlow committee, regulation, and the presidency : seventy years later
By: ARNOLD, Peri E
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, November / December 2007Public administration review : PAR 67, 6, p. 1030-1040Abstract: Analyzing Robert E. Cushmans study within the context of the Brownlow Report substantiates the argument that the immediate failure of the committees recommendationsand their influence in the longer termis best explained within the conceptual framework of changing political orders in American political development. Seventy years later, the field has the historical perspective to see that the committees work was buffeted by tensions between competing political orders. Today, far from being just an interesting episode in American public administration, we see that the Brownlow Committees work on regulation, as much as work on executive organization, heralded and enabled a new era of presidential administration
Analyzing Robert E. Cushmans study within the context of the Brownlow Report substantiates the argument that the immediate failure of the committees recommendationsand their influence in the longer termis best explained within the conceptual framework of changing political orders in American political development. Seventy years later, the field has the historical perspective to see that the committees work was buffeted by tensions between competing political orders. Today, far from being just an interesting episode in American public administration, we see that the Brownlow Committees work on regulation, as much as work on executive organization, heralded and enabled a new era of presidential administration
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