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Mariano-Florentino Cuellar - Governing Security - 9780804770699 - V9780804770699
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Governing Security

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Description for Governing Security hardcover. Investigates the origins of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security to show how fights over the scope of national security can reshape the very structure of government. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.

Governing Security investigates the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By describing the legal, political, and institutional history of both organizations, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. He shows how Americans end up choosing security goals not through an elaborate technical process, but in lively and overlapping settings involving conflict over statutory programs, agency autonomy, presidential power, and priorities ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804770699
SKU
V9780804770699
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50

About Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is the President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former California Supreme Court Justice, he was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and served two U.S. presidents at the White House and in federal agencies.

Reviews for Governing Security
"This well-researched and written book should become a seminal work. Any scholar or student of bureaucracy, security studies broadly, or modern US history should read this excellent book . . . Essential."
T. T. Gibson
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"Not only does Cuéllar's background as a professor of law and political science lend authority to his book, references to a ... Read more

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