The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality: Interests and Influence in Governmental Regulation of Occupational Safety

How do interest groups and elected officials affect how government regulators enforce the law? This book reconciles the apparent contradiction between political understandings of bureaucracy, in which interest groups and elected officials shape how the law is enforced, with accounts in public administration and elsewhere about the neutral and consistent implementation of the law. It shows that bureaucracies can pursue a strategy of 'strategic neutrality' to build political support, therefore demonstrating that neutrality can persist in the face of external pressures and has political origins.

Author: Gregory A. Huber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/07/2007
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.34w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780521872799

About the Author
Huber, Gregory A.: - Gregory A. Huber is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. This book is based on his dissertation, which won the 2002 Leonard White Prize of the American Political Science Association. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Huber was the Robert Hartley Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution.