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100 1 _aWOLF, Patrick J.
_928108
245 1 0 _aNeutral and responsive competence :
_bthe bureau of the budget, 1939-1948, revisited
260 _aThousand Oaks :
_bSAGE,
_cMarch 1999
520 3 _aTerry M. Moe argues that the interests of modern presidents lead them to eschew the "neutral competence" of professional staff agencies for the "responsive competence" more typical of presidential loyalists and the White House staff. This article examines the critical case of the Bureau of the Budget, 1939-1948, an agency that Moe claims faced a Faustian choice between sacrificing neutral competence or failing to respond to presidential needs. The scholarly and historical record indicates that, contrary to Moe’s claims, the agency maintained high levels of both neutral competence and responsiveness to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman during this period. Moreover, the behavior of both the agency and its presidential clients was "rational" given the agency’s structure and mission and given presidential needs
773 0 8 _tAdministration & Society
_g31, 1, p. 142-167
_dThousand Oaks : SAGE, March 1999
_xISSN 00953997
_w
942 _cS
998 _a20061113
_b1702^b
_cNatália
998 _a20100805
_b1559^b
_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c19779
_d19779
041 _aeng