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The Legitimacy of U.S. Government Agency Power

Public administration review, 2015-01, Vol.75 (1), p.75-84 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2015 American Society for Public Administration ;2014 by The American Society for Public Administration ;Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Jan/Feb 2015 ;ISSN: 0033-3352 ;EISSN: 1540-6210 ;DOI: 10.1111/puar.12279 ;CODEN: PBARBM

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  • Title:
    The Legitimacy of U.S. Government Agency Power
  • Author: Feldman, Daniel L.
  • Subjects: Agency ; Boundaries ; Bureaucracy ; Bureaucrats ; Constitution ; Economic Crises ; Federal government ; Government ; Government Agencies ; Intellectuals ; Legitimacy ; Loyalty ; Political power ; Power ; Public administration ; Trust ; U.S.A ; Values
  • Is Part Of: Public administration review, 2015-01, Vol.75 (1), p.75-84
  • Description: A synthesis of the work of two political and legal scholars, John Rohr and Lon Fuller, properly balances constitutional and managerial values, supplementing other theories that offer useful but insufficient support for American government agency legitimacy. Agencies reflecting that balance would strengthen their legitimacy—a particularly valuable goal in an era of low confidence in American government. Rohr's focus on the constitutional oath of office and American regime values, and Fuller's insistence that law must serve human needs, leave a great deal indeterminate and discretionary but nevertheless set boundaries. Bureaucrats who risked or sacrificed their jobs to avoid transgressing those boundaries offer models of loyalty to the Rohr-Fuller balance of values. The behavior of officials in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in thwarting measures that could have averted the financial crisis of 2007 offers a model of bureaucrats who violated those boundaries.
  • Publisher: Hoboken, USA: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0033-3352
    EISSN: 1540-6210
    DOI: 10.1111/puar.12279
    CODEN: PBARBM
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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