Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government

by Martha A. Derthick

Book Overview

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Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies.

Derthick concludes that many structural features of American government hinder good administration, that policymakers lack concern for administration, and that they often miscalculate the administrative consequences of their policy choices.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815718233
• ISBN13: 9780815718239
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"