A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington

by Hugh Heclo (Author), Gilbert Y. Steiner (Foreword)

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  Illustrated
  1977

  $25.56

  How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt.