Description:
Designed to assist librarians, students, researchers, and government personnel in locating information on the executive branch of the federal government, this work is the first book-length bibliography devoted to the subject. Focusing on the history and development of the executive branch and its organization, procedures, rulings, and policy, the bibliography provides selected listings for the chief executive and his staff as well as cabinet-level departments and major sub-agencies. The work is divided into fifteen subject chapters dealing with the executive branch in general and individual departments and agencies. Drawn from a systematic search of eleven major indexes and a variety of other sources, the citations include books, scholarly articles, dissertations, and selected research reports.
The book is divided into fifteen subject chapters dealing with the executive branch in general and individual departments and agencies. Drawn from a systematic search of eleven major indexes and a variety of other sources, the citations include books, scholarly articles, dissertations, and selected research repotts. Works in the fields of political science, economics, law, public administration, the social sciences, and related disciplines are represented. The volume concludes with comprehensive author and subject indexes. Offering broad coverage and a convenient format, this new bibliography will be a valuable addition to the reference collections of academic, legal, governmental and public libraries.Review Quotes: "This bibliography pulls together more than 4,000 unannotated citations to monographs, scholarly articles, dissertations, and selected research reports dealing with the executive branch of the US federal government. Entries are drawn from a variety of fields including business, economics, political science, law, history, public administration, and the general social sciences. The aim of the bibliography is to include citations to materials relating to the history, development, organization, procedures, rulings, and policy of the cabinet-level departments. The first of 15 major chapters contains citations to materials relating to the executive branch as a whole, American public administration, and bureaucracy. The remaining chapters are devoted to the various executive departments: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and the Postal Service. Government documents are not a part of this bibliography. Although the editors maintain, we attempted to include all books written about individual departments since 1900, ' most citations date from 1945 to the present. All citations are in English. Author and subject indexes. Well done, and appropriate for larger college and university libraries."-Choice