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Paul C. Light

The Government-Industrial Complex

The True Size of the Federal Government, 1984-2018

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In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a military-industrial complex so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of a blended government workforce that was growing by leaps and bounds. Over the next half century, the true size of the federal government expanded in almost every department and agency as it came to depend on 7-9 million federal, contract, and grant employees to faithfully execute the laws.In The Government-Industrial Complex, public management expert Paul Light not only traces the expansion of th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-085181-1
  • EAN: 9780190851811
  • Produktnummer: 29391907
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 992 KB
  • Abbildungen: 2 illustrations

Über den Autor


Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before joining NYU, he was vice president and director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow, and founding director of its Center for Public Service. He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee from 1987-1989, associate dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University ofMinnesota from 1989-1994, director of the public policy grant program at the Pew Charitable Trusts from 1995-1998. Light has written 25 books, including four national award winners, and is a recognized expert on government reform, legislative history, social innovation, and government by investigation.

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