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100 1 _aKHADEMIAN, Anne M.
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245 1 0 _aWhen missions matter :
_bprofessional priorities and the "stepchild" of supervisory programs
260 _aMalden :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_cJanuary 1995
520 3 _aIf there is a clear bottom line to the literature on political control of the bureaucracy, it is that control is never complete. Principals can be multiple, priorities diverse, preferences for policy incomplete and not articulated, and intentional choice lost in the muddle. Yet as long as bureaucratic studies remain focused upon outside political actors, or at best, the political appointee at the helm of an agency, we will not make many advances in our understanding of important organizational dynamics that act as an independent force upon the phenomenon of bureaucratic behavior. This article suggests a politically cognizant return to the bureaucracy by examining the distinct management efforts of the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC to supervise the consumer and civil rights obligations of banks, known collectively as "compliance" obligations. The same mandates, issued and overseen by the same political principals, and implemented within common professional cultures, have been managed in ways that vary in the context of each agency's organizational mission. It is argued that organizational mission provides an empirical link between the priorities and mandates imposed from a system of "overhead democracy," and the influential priorities of a common professional group (bank examiners) in each of the agencies.
773 0 8 _tGovernance: An International Journal of Policy and Adminitration
_g8, 1, p. 26-57
_dMalden : Wiley-Blackwell, January 1995
_xISSN 09521895
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