Politics, Position, and Power: From the Positive to the Regulatory State

by Harold Seidman and Robert Gilmour

This substantially revised fourth edition of a now-classic work is the first to take a scrutinizing, inside look at the realities of the U.S. government in the 1980s, examining the federal administration as it affects and is affected by competing forces for power, position and political advantage. The authors analyze the implications of the transition from the positive to the regulatory state for federal organization and administration, and the consequent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195039912
• ISBN13: 9780195039917
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"