The government-industrial complex : the true size of the federal government, 1984-2018

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Label

The government-industrial complex : the true size of the federal government, 1984-2018

Title remainder

the true size of the federal government, 1984-2018

Statement of responsibility

Paul C. Light ; foreword by Paul A. Volcker

Creator

• Light, Paul Charles

Contributor

• Volcker, Paul A.

Author

• Light, Paul Charles

Subject

• Civil service -- United States
• Contracting out
• Contracting out
• Contracting out -- United States
• Employees
• Employees
• Government accountability
• Government accountability
• Government accountability -- United States
• Government contractors
• Government contractors
• Government contractors -- United States
• Politics and government
• Politics and government
• Public contracts
• Public contracts
• Public contracts -- United States
• Since 1981
• Staatsquote
• Staatsquote
• USA
• USA
• United States
• United States
• United States -- Officials and employees
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• Wirtschaftsmacht
• Wirtschaftsmacht
• Civil service
• Civil service

Language

eng

Summary

"The Government-Industrial Complex explores the recent history and impact of the federal governments blended workforce of federal, contract, and grant employees. Drawing upon Dwight D. Eisenhowers description of the military-industrial complex, government-reform expert Paul Light argues that the federal government now depends on seven-nine million full-time-equivalent government-industry employees. Lights analysis examines changes in the size of the government-industrial complex, explains the federal governments dependence on contract and grant employees, and explores potential reforms to protect the nation against what Eisenhower called the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power. Light chronicles the role of hiring caps, cuts, and freezes in promoting the use of contract and grant employees and shows the impact of war and peace on the changing size of government. Light offers short histories of the role that Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama played in the changing number and distribution of the federal governments federal, contract, and grant employees. Light also discusses the Trump administrations early strategies on downsizing and deconstructing government while describing the demographic, bureaucratic, and political problems that explain the federal governments dependence on contract and grant employees. He then describes a sorting system for assuring that the right employees are in the right jobs to assure the greatest value and accountability, and he concludes with a description of the {28}next gen

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

352.6/30973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JK692

LC item number

.L535 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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