The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality: Interests and Influence in Governmental Regulation of Occupational Safety

ISBN-13: 9780521872799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 266 str.

Gregory A. Huber

Opis

How do interest groups and elected officials affect how government regulators enforce the law? This book reconciles the apparent contradiction between political understandings of bureaucracy, in which interest groups and elected officials shape how the law is enforced, with accounts in public administration and elsewhere about the neutral and consistent implementation of the law. It shows that bureaucracies can pursue a strategy of 'strategic neutrality' to build political support, therefore demonstrating that neutrality can persist in the face of external pressures and has political origins.

Recenzje

"Huber mines a mountain of data...The quality of his empirical analysis of OSHA's implementation strategies is truly impressive." Graham K. Wilson, Boston University: American Politics Book Reviews

Spis treści

1. Bureaucratic power and strategic neutrality; 2. Political conflict and the Occupational Safety and Health Act; 3. From regulatory search to enforcement; 4. Federal oversight and state OSH Act enforcement; 5. Conclusion.