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In an earlier article we described how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established to force the design of safer automobiles through the promulgation of national safety performance standards.' By the mid-1970s, however, it had become a consumer complaint bureau whose massive recall activities had no discernable effect on motor vehicle safety. We attributed NHTSA's shift in regulatory strategy to the external legal culture. In particular, the agency had adjusted to a proceduralized form of judicial review that had burdened, dislocated, and ultimately paralyzed its rule making efforts. By contrast, the judiciary reacted so favorably to NHTSA's recall efforts that manufacturers soon viewed legal resistance to recalls as counterproductive. Anyone who has a nodding acquaintance with bureaucracies and their internal atmospheres will view this straightforward story of agency adjustment to external legal control with considerable skepticism. Bureaucratic behavior is also determined by internal factors such as office organization, established routines, resource allocations, professional cadres, and unique leaders. To look inside a bureaucracy, moreover, is to explore institutional personality-the sense of mission, morale, indeed the culture, that guides the day to day activities of a bureaucracy's functionaries. Bureaucratic institutions have their own internal laws, expressed both in regulation and in routine.

Inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Legal Determinants of Bureaucratic Organization and Performance