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<p>Outstanding Academic Title, 1991, <i>Choice</i> Magazine</p><p>Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous task for bureaucrats. <i>The Space Station Decision</i> examines the history of this controversial initiative and illustrates how bureaucracy shapes public policy. Using primary documents and interviews, Howard E. McCurdy describes the events that led up to the 1984 decision to build a permanently occupied, international space station in low Earth orbit.</p><p>As he follows the trail of the space station proposal through the labyrinth of White House policy review, McCurdy explains the evolution of the presidential budget review process, the breakup of the cabinet system, the proliferation of subcabinets and Executive Office interagency, the involvement of White House staff in framing issues for presidential review, and the role of bureaucracy in advancing administration legislation on Capitol Hill. Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to
- Author
- Howard E McCurdy; Project Muse
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801887499
- Subjects
- Military, Engineering, Government_military
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