Combating the Bureaucracy

U.S. Nuclear Defense Policy Development and Implementation following the Cold War

By: Tobias Vogt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Have you ever watched the news and wondered, “Why is the government so incompetent”?

If so, Combating the Bureaucracy is for you!

This book looks at how the government develops and implements policies by examining the U.S. nuclear defense approach during the post-Cold War period (1989 and 2009).

Along the way you’ll find that the diluted policy development process in Congress enables the unelected federal Bureaucracy to interpret laws to their liking. Not only is the Bureaucracy empowered to interpret laws as they wish for organization and resourcing, they’re also given enormous power to establish additional regulations as they see fit during implementation.

The first portion of the book uses case studies to examine two major prevention and protection policies - strategic arms reduction and national missile defense. These studies suggest that varying stakeholder positions and multiple action channels for national policy development resulted in a patchwork of nuclear defense policies that were uncoordinated, inconsistent, and at times, in conflict.

The second portion of the book explores three prevention, protection, and response implementation studies - threat reduction, maritime radiation detection, and nuclear forensics -- within the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security. In the context of nuclear defense, research for this portion of the book suggests that a segregated federal design underlay individual department approaches to policy implementation.

If you’re not prepared to be angry about an enormous waste of tax dollars, then this book probably isn’t for you.
But, if you want to know how the U.S. government actually works, or dare I say fails to work, then Combating the Bureaucracy is for you!

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