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The Brownlow Committee, Regulation, and the Presidency: Seventy Years Later
Author(s) -
Arnold Peri E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00794.x
Subject(s) - presidential system , presidency , politics , argument (complex analysis) , context (archaeology) , administration (probate law) , public administration , executive branch , political science , work (physics) , perspective (graphical) , law , history , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
Analyzing Robert E. Cushman’s study within the context of the Brownlow Report substantiates the argument that the immediate failure of the committee’s recommendations—and their influence in the longer term—is best explained within the conceptual framework of changing political orders in American political development. Seventy years later, the field has the historical perspective to see that the committee’s work was buffeted by tensions between competing political orders. Today, far from being just an interesting episode in American public administration, we see that the Brownlow Committee’s work on regulation, as much as work on executive organization, heralded and enabled a new era of presidential administration.