Agency Politicization and the Decline of Neutral Competence: The Case of OMB in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Lim Jae Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Congressional Budget Office ◽  
Modern Presidency ◽  
Professional Reputation

The modern presidency is heavily politicized. The president is expected to be the chief legislator, chief economist, chief psychiatrist, and chief diplomat for the nation and is the cog around which national affairs revolve. However, a politicized presidency signals the downfall of the managerial presidency that was buttressed by agencies with neutral competence. This article traces the evolution of an American budgetary agency, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from its inception to the present, documenting the baleful impact of the politicized presidency on the OMB. Amid politicization, the OMB lost its professional reputation for neutral competence and was replaced by the Congressional Budget Office as the foremost authority on national budgetary matters. This article, in essence, presents a cautionary tale of agency politicization in modern bureaucracy.

scholarly journals Black-white disparities in 2009 H1N1 vaccination among adults in the United States: A cautionary tale for the COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 943-951
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Burger ◽  
Eric N. Reither ◽  
Svenn-Erik Mamelund ◽  
Sojung Lim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
2009 H1n1

scholarly journals A Cautionary Tale

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-247
Author(s):  
P. R. J. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cautionary Tale

I Suppose this incident might be entitled ‘How not to find a lightship’. It took place in the 1930s while I was serving in the M.S. Potter, one of the United States Line's long-haul cargo motorships of the period. She was a three-island, fivehatch ship which could lift eight-thousand tons and move it at eleven knots. She was my home for five years and wound up as part of a breakwater at the Normandy beachhead.

scholarly journals Gertrude Stanton (1863-1931)

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Viktoria Davis ◽  
Lilien Vogl
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Reputation ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
Set Up

Dr. Ella Gertrude Smith Ayer Stanton Jones (1863-1931), better known as Gertrude Stanton, was the first woman licensed to practice optometry in the United States. A native of Iowa, Stanton began her career as a teacher, but eventually moved to Minnesota where she received training and began to work as an itinerant refracting optician or optometrist, building her professional reputation through clever marketing. In 1901, shortly after the passage of the first optometry licensure law in Minnesota, Stanton applied for and received a license by exemption. Stanton went on to become an in-store optometrist at Dayton’s Department Store and eventually set up her own storefront where she employed her daughter and ran an optical business run entirely by women. During her career, she participated in optometry and professional associations and public service projects and was active in her community. Thrice married with three children, Stanton’s abiding popularity with her patients and the public as well as her financial success despite leading an unconventional life for a woman at the turn of the twentieth century is a testament to her fierce independence, indomitable spirit and impressive business acumen. This article, constructed from meticulous research in archival records, paints a detailed portrait of Stanton’s life and career as an optometric pioneer.

Danny Almonte: Discursive Construction(s) of (Im)migrant Citizenship in Neoliberal America

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan King-White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Little League

In this project I will trace former Little League Baseball star, Danny Almonte’s, celebrity identity and flexible citizenship with particular regard to the way that he has been used as both an exemplary Dominican immigrant and later a cautionary tale. As such this critical biography of Almonte’s rise and fall in American popular culture—informed by Henry Giroux’s extensive theorizing on youth culture, Ong’s concept of flexible citizenship, and Steven Jackson’s understanding of “twisting”—will critically interrogate the mediated discourses used to describe, define, and make Almonte into a symbol of a (stereo)typical Dominican male. In accordance with contemporaneous hyper-conservative and neoliberal rhetoric pervasive throughout the United States, I posit the notion that Almonte’s contested celebrity was formulated within the popular media as the embodiment of the minority “assault” on white privilege.

scholarly journals The US experience in contracting out security and lessons for other countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-248
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Bruneau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
The Us ◽  
Privatization Of Security

The United States has gone further than any country in the "privatization of security". Other countries may find the economic or financial logic in the use of contractors persuasive. The US experience with contracting out security, particularly in Iraq, was problematic, and can serve as a cautionary tale in order that other countries might learn how to avoid the pitfalls.

Dear White Academic Colleague: Black Faculty Lives Matter: Towards Avoiding the Crime of Silence

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-109
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third

In this article, motivated by the unjustified and brutal killing of George Floyd by police officers, I write an open letter to faculty members in general and to White faculty members in particular. In the first part of this letter, I recount some of my past traumatic experiences of institutionalised racism, which begun at an early age in England—experiences that led me to leave England for the United States in a naïve attempt to find a place where institutionalised racism was much less. In the second part of my letter, I discuss kneeling as a symbolism for institutionalised racism. In the third part, I personalise institutionalised racism in academia. In the fourth section, I provide a framework for White colleagues looking to promote anti-racism in academia. I conclude with a cautionary tale as well as a message of hope for addressing institutionalised racism.

Case Studies of Fiscal Councils - Functions and Impact

Policy Papers ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (65) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Congressional Budget Office ◽  
Main Paper

This supplement presents case studies of seven fiscal councils and examines how each council performs its core functions and if and how it impacts on the fiscal policy debate. The seven fiscal councils are: Belgium (Conseil Supérieur des Finances—HCF), Canada (Parliamentary Budget Officer—PBO), Hungary (Költségvetési Tanács), Korea (National Assembly Budget Office—NABO), the Netherlands (Centraal Planbureau—CPB), Sweden (Finanspolitiska rådet), and the United States (Congressional Budget Office-CBO). The main paper presents the comparative lessons and the general findings of this study based on a systematic comparison of these fiscal councils’ experiences. This supplement discusses in detail each individual fiscal council’s experiences.

scholarly journals A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE SURPLUS VALUE IN THE UNITED STATES BASED ON A MACROECONOMIC MODEL: CONSEQUENCES FOR RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Ryzhenkov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
National Income ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Macroeconomic Model ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Congressional Budget Office ◽  
The Usa ◽  
A Prospective Study

This article develops an optimization neoliberal scenario 1 and a socially-oriented scenario 2 of capitalist reproduction based on US statistics for 2020-40. Scenario 1 preserves the socio-economic structure that generated the systemic, structural, and cyclical crisis of capitalism; it assumes a regular repetition of overproduction and paroxysms. The transforming social relations in the direction of tightening the workers’ control over production and the primary distribution of national income take place in scenario 2. Comparison of these pioneer scenarios with the projections by the Congressional Budget Office in the USA for 2020-2030 reveals the underestimation by the latter of the depth and duration of the epoch-making corona-crisis, which owes its name to the Covid-19 pandemic. The necessity for Russia of revival of the ideology of socialism, understood as the first phase of communism, is substantiated.

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