Bring back the bureaucrats : why more federal workers will lead to better (and smaller!) government /

Bring back the bureaucrats : why more federal workers will lead to better (and smaller!) government /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	DiIulio, John J., Jr., 1958- author.
Imprint:	West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 168 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	New threats to freedom series New threats to freedom series.
Subject:	Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management. Bureaucracy -- United States. Civil service -- United States. Public administration -- United States. Government productivity -- United States. Administrative agencies -- Management. Bureaucracy. Civil service. Government productivity. Public administration. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11237324

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ISBN:	9781599474687 1599474689 9781599474670 1599474670 9781322112459 1322112452
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 25, 2020).
Summary:	In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America's most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America's big government actually works and why reforms that include adding a million more people to the federal workforce by 2035 might actually help to slow government's growth while improving its performance. Starting from the underreported reality that the size of the federal workforce hasn't increased since the early 1960s even though the federal budget has skyrocketed and the number of federa.
Other form:	Print version: DiIulio, John J., Jr., 1958- Bring back the bureaucrats 9781599474670

Table of Contents:

Leviathan by proxy
Big brother is outsourcing : leveraged government is not limited government
The federal workforce is overloaded, not bloated : contracted, not privatized
If we knew then what we know now
Conclusion : more federal bureaucrats, less big/bad government
The government we need for the things we want by E.J. Dionne Jr
No cure for the sclerotic state by Charles Murray
Epilogue : reply to E.J. Dionne Jr. and Charles Murray.