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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/457149482 Title: The people's agents and the battle to protect the American public : special interests, government, and threats to health, safety, and the environment Author: Rena Steinzor; Sidney A Shapiro Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN/ISSN: 9780226772028 0226772020 OCLC:457149482

  
  

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The people's agents and the battle to protect the American public : special interests, government, and threats to health, safety, and the environment

Author:	Rena Steinzor; Sidney A Shapiro
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Americans think they can rely on the federal government to keep dangerous chemicals out of our consumer products, our workplaces, our food supply, our water, and our air. Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro demonstrate how far our government falls short of being able to perform these tasks. America's watchdog agencies have been crippled by decades of budget cutting, harassment from Congress and the White House, and a general climate of disdain for the men and women who staff these agencies. There are no easy cures, but we would do well to heed their advice about how to begin to remedy the situation."Dan Farber, University of California, Berkeley. "Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro present an eminently readable account of how thirty years of conscious neglect have decimated the regulatory programs that protect our health, safety, and environment, and they offer innovative suggestions for revitalizing the civil service and developing positive metrics to alert society to the need for stronger governmental action."Thomas O. McGarity, University of Texas at Austin. Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that shoulder these responsibilities are in shambles; if they continue to decline, lives will be lost and natural resources will be squandered. In this timely book, Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro take a hard look at the tangled web of problems that have led to this dire state of affairs. It turns out that the agencies are not primarily to blame and that regulatory failure actually stems from a host of overlooked causes. Steinzor and Shapiro discover that unrelenting funding cuts, a breakdown of the legislative process, an increase in the number of political appointees, a concurrent loss of experienced personnel, chaotic White House oversight, and ceaseless political attacks on the bureaucracy all have contributed to the broken system. But while the news is troubling, the authors also propose a host of reforms, including a new model for measuring the success of the agencies and a revitalization of the civil service. The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public is an urgent and compelling appeal to renew America's best traditions of public service. --Book Jacket.  Read more...
Subjects	Public safety -- United States. Public interest -- United States. Government accountability -- United States. View all subjects
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