President George W. Bush’s Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy

1. Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?
Colin Provost, Paul Teske

Part I. An Overview of the Bush Bureaucracy

2. Personnel Is Policy: George W. Bush’s Managerial Presidency
David E. Lewis

3. Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under “43”
Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb Yackee

4. Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era
Andrew B. Whitford

5. Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency
George A. Krause, Brent M. Dupay

Part II. Control and Constraints in Cabinet Agencies

6. President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy, and No State Left Behind
Paul Teske

7. The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security
Feter J. May, Samuel Workman

8. Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limits of Presidential Policy Control
Brian J. Gerber

Part III. Regulation of Business in the MBA Presidency

9. Flying under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency
Colin Provost, Brian J. Gerber, Mark Pickup

10. Efficiency, Enforcement, and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Jill Nicholson-Crotty

11. Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Richard W. Waterman

Part IV. An Assessment of George W. Bush’s Policy Management

12. Evaluating Policy in the Bush II Presidency
Colin Provost

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Political Science