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- Title
PRESIDENTIAL STAFFING IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.
- Authors
Carey, William D.
- Abstract
In this article, the author focuses the issue concerning American Presidential staffing during 1960s and 1970s. He describes that the staff work for Presidents is required of a unique professionalism with self-effacement and arrogance that the office seems to draw to it regardless of the human qualities of the sitting President. But staffing the presidency is a more complicated matter than the presence of a society of committed professionals. It is required to be informed, creative, and responsive to the understood properties of political dynamics. The author describes several factors that are related with this perspective. It is suggested that the decisions that queue up for resolution by a President increasingly involve high stakes and risks, and consequently a President's miscalculations and mistakes are conspicuous and exceedingly hard to retrieve. Science and technology add complications and uncertainties to presidential policy making, as technological opportunities press for hot pursuit. The Budgetary dimensions make a President to be engaged in sophisticated fiscal engineering in order to balance spending with prices, incomes, employment, and the balance of payments.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRESIDENTIAL staff; FEDERAL employees (U.S.); UNITED States politics &; government; PROFESSIONALISM; EMPLOYEE selection; FISCAL policy; PRESIDENTS of the United States; DECISION making in political science; POLICY sciences
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1969, Vol 29, Issue 5, p450
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/973465