Chapter 1 Extraordinary Powers, Extraordinary Policies?

Chapter 2 Personnel Is Policy: George W. Bush’s Managerial Presidency

Chapter 3 Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different? A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under “43”

Chapter 4 Presidential Attention to Independent Regulators in the Bush Era

Chapter 5 Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the Bush Presidency

Chapter 6 President Bush and the U.S. Department of Education: The Texas Mafia, Scientific Education Policy, and No State Left Behind

Chapter 7 The Paradox of Agency Issue Attention: The Bush Administration and Homeland Security

Chapter 8 Policy Dominance versus Policy Success: Homeland Security and the Limits of Presidential Policy Control

Chapter 9 Flying under the Radar? Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Bush Environmental Protection Agency

Chapter 10 Efficiency, Enforcement, and Political Control: The Case of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Chapter 11 Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission