bureaucracy

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• SOURCE: New York Historical Society
  8/31/2022
  

  Institute for Constitutional History Fall Seminar: Bureaucracy and the Constitution

  "Today, a deep and historically inflected debate is raging over the legitimacy of American bureaucracy. As context for that controversy, this seminar will trace the constitutional history of the U.S. administrative state."

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  5/10/2021
  

  The Filing Cabinet: A Material History

  by Craig Robertson

  The humble filing cabinet in fact tells the story of the rise of bureaucratic structures in capitalism and government, and the potential for information to be used efficiently – or weaponized. 

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• 10/4/2020
  

  Loyalty and Duty in the Federal Bureaucracy, From Nixon to Trump

  by Michael Koncewicz

  Independent civil servants checked Richard Nixon's worst impulses to use the executive branch to punish enemies. The independence of the bureaucracy has since eroded, to Donald Trump's advantage. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/26/19
  

  The ‘Deep State’ Exists to Battle People Like Trump

  by Margaret O’Mara

  A merit-based system for hiring federal employees was created in reaction to the rampant corruption of the Gilded Age.