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Making Government Work

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About the Book and Editors

Relations between Congress and the executive branch have always been an uneasy mixture of mutuality and autonomy, cooperation and conflict. The U.S. Constitution required that the two branches of the federal government work in concert, but it also mandated a separation of powers. Inevitably, this situation has led to a clash of wills and a contest for power, but during the past 200 years the system has proved amazingly durable.

Recently, however, the two branches have been buffeted by a succession of political developments combined with institutional and technological change. The growing frustration of many policymakers has been increasingly evident in the process itself: fewer pieces of legislation actually become law, the budget process consumes ever-increasing amounts of time and effort, and the executive branch finds its foreign policy initiatives reshaped by an assertive Congress, Congress relied heavily on the legislative veto only to see the veto overturned by the Supreme Court. Officials in both branches of government and in both parties agree that the process has become excessively frustrating and time consuming. But what is to be done? There is agreement on the illness but little on the causes of each symptom and even less on the remedy. Each branch tends to blame the other for tensions and contends that the other should make the bulk of any reforms.

This book is a practical and realistic blueprint for change in the U.S. government. The contributors, a bi-partisan group of government leaders and academics, draw on their wide-ranging experience within Congress, the White House, and the bureaucracy. Using case studies that illustrate central issues in legislative-executive relations, the authors dissect key problems plaguing and often paralyzing the conduct of the government. Because this book emphasizes the viewpoint of practitioners responsible for getting government business done at both national and international levels, its recommendations for change are pragmatic and represent realistic opportunities for improving government.

Robert E. Hunter is director of European studies at CSIS and a contributing editor of The Washington Quarterly. Wayne L. Berman , a Washington lobbyist with the firm of Berman, Bergner, and Boyette, Inc., codirects CSIS's programs on Executive-Legislative Relations and National Elections Reform. John F. Kennedy is staff director of the Commission on National Elections and is assistant director of CSIS's European Studies Program.

Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University

Making Government Work

From White House to Congress

edited by
Robert E. Hunter, Wayne L. Berman, and John F. Kennedy

Foreword by Amos A. Jordan

First published 1986 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright 1986 by Norman Ornstein

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Making government work.
Rev. ed. of: Making the government work/edited by
Robert E. Hunter, Wayne L. Berman. 1985.
Published in cooperation with the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University.
Bibliography: p.
1. United StatesExecutive departments. 2. United
States. Congress. I. Hunter, Robert Edwards, 1940
II. Berman, Wayne L. III. Kennedy, John F.
IV. Georgetown University. Center for Strategic and
International Studies. V. Georgetown University.
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Making the government work.
JK585.M33 1986 353.03'72 86-9218

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-00632-7 (hbk)

Contents

, Amos A. Jordan

, Robert E. Hunter, Wayne L. Berman, and John F. Kenned

, Richard R. Rivers

, Robert S. Strauss

, Joseph Cooper

, Paul Findley

, Allen Schick

, R. James Woolsey

, Frederick S. Tipson

, Melvin R. Laird

, Alton Frye

, I. M. Destler

, Richard Cheney

, Alvin Paul Drischler

, Clarence D. Long

, Norman Ornstein

, Kenneth M. Duberstein

, edited by Robert E. Hunter and Wayne L. Berman

1. ii
2. iv
3. xii

Guide

Since its inception more than two decades ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) of Georgetown University has served as a bridge between the worlds of government, academia, and the private sector. It has been devoted to research and analysis into key problems facing our nation in foreign and defense policy.

In recent years, we have also recognized the importance of addressing the way in which policy is madeboth the methods and the institutional structures of government. We have thus undertaken several important projects devoted to governancethe ways, means, and processes of government that make possible the foreign and defense policies that serve the country's objectives. Indeed, we have come to recognize that a proper understanding of governance is a prerequisite for developing useful policy recommendations.

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