President George W. Bush's Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary

Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?; C.Provost & P.Teske PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUSH BUREAUCRACY Personnel is Policy: George W. Bush's Managerial Presidency; D.E.Lewis Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking Under '43'; S.Webb Yackee & J.Webb Yackee Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era; A.B.Whitford Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control Over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency; G.A.Krause & B.M.Dupay PART II: CONTROL AND CONSTRAINTS IN CABINET AGENCIES President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy and No State Left Behind; P.Teske The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security; P.J.May & S.Workman Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limitations of Presidential Policy Control; B.J.Gerber PART II: CONTROL AND CONSTRAINTS IN CABINET AGENCIES Flying Under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency; C.Provost , B.J.Gerber & M.Pickup Efficiency, Enforcement and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; S.Nicholson-Crotty & J.Nicholson-Crotty Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; R.W.Waterman PART IV: AN ASSESSMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH'S POLICY MANAGEMENT Evaluating Policy in the Bush II President; C.Provost