Washington Command Post; The Operations Division. By Ray S. Cline. (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. 1951. Pp. xvi, 413. $3.25.)
In: American political science review, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 252-252
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In: American political science review, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 252-252
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 469-470
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: American political science review, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 38-52
ISSN: 1537-5943
Somewhat more than a year has passed since James Forrestal took the oath of office as first Secretary of Defense on September 17, 1947. While it is still too early to pass final judgment on the effectiveness of the National Security Organization, sufficient time has elapsed to take some measure of the vast scope of problems it faces, and of the soundness of the foundations upon which it rests.The National Security Act of 1947, under which the new organization was created, was one of the most thoroughly studied pieces of legislation to come out of the war. In that act, Congress indicated its purpose as being "to provide a comprehensive program of the future security of the United States." The act did not merge the Army and Navy into a single Department of Defense as many had hoped, but it did provide administrative machinery for establishing integrated policies and procedures for those agencies of the federal government primarily concerned with the national security.The most important single fact about the National Security Act was that it did much more than merely reorganize the Armed Forces. Indeed this was the essential difference between the two reorganization plans sponsored during 1945–47 by the Army and the Navy. The Army's plan, drafted by Lt. General J. Lawton Collins and his staff, and frequently referred to as the "Collins Plan," proposed a single "Department of the Armed Forces" with a Secretary at its head. The Navy's proposal went much farther. A brief description of the two plans may not be amiss, since they explain some of the problems that the National Security Organization has encountered during its first year of operation.
In: American political science review, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 68-74
ISSN: 1537-5943
Few American political scientists have heard of the "Federal Labor Relations Commission," but to a small group of students at Stanford and Columbia Universities the Commission was very real. It is true that its work did not attract as much attention from the great metropolitan journals as did the operations of its rival, the National Labor Relations Board; but to the students who were members of its staff it provided a first-rate laboratory for the study of public administration. For that reason, a brief review of the Commission's operations may be of some interest to teachers of public administration.Political scientists have always been interested in teaching methods; and the war and the experience gained in having to train large numbers of men for the armed services seem to have stimulated that interest. Articles which appeared in the June issue of this Review were evidence of that concern. While these articles were directed primarily toward teaching methods in political science courses generally, many of the suggestions were particularly applicable to teaching public administration. Francis Wilcox's regret that "there is one problem in particular which should give us pause, our slowness to utilize laboratory methods in political science," is largely responsible for this article, since the operations of the Federal Labor Relations Commission were an attempt to provide such a laboratory.
In: National municipal review, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 100-103
AbstractFirst reform mayor since John Purroy Mitchel launches administration of "experts" with brilliant promise.
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 31, S. 1-262
ISSN: 0065-0684
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 29, S. 1-230
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In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 31, S. 3-194
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In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 30, S. 1-212
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In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 119
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 30, S. 1-184
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 60-81
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 160-172
ISSN: 1467-8500