{"id":2456,"date":"2013-02-11T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:54:24","slug":"2456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/2456\/","title":{"rendered":"Mordecai Lee, Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0806142030\/alcoholreviewsco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2457\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/2456\/mordecai-lee-congress-vs-the-bureaucracy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"333,499\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mordecai Lee Congress vs. the Bureaucracy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2457\" alt=\"Mordecai Lee Congress vs. the Bureaucracy\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mordecai-Lee-Congress-vs.-the-Bureaucracy.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The current copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07343469.2013.756368\">Congress &amp; the Presidency<\/a> carries my review of this interesting book.<\/p>\n<p>Mordecai Lee describes the more than century-long battle between the legislative and executive branch over when, how, and on what subjects federal agencies may communicate with the public. The book illustrates a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem\">principal-agent problem<\/a>&#8212;how can one person\/organization get another person\/organization to do its bidding and not use its discretion otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>Agencies often find value in communicating with the public. Said communications can alter public perceptions of agencies and their activities. This leads to a democratic conundrum: agencies, instead of following the preferences of the representatives of the people, instead encourage the people to change their preferences to cohere with the preferences of agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The full citation is:<\/p>\n<p>Kevin R. Kosar, review of Mordecai Lee,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07343469.2013.756368\">Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations<\/a>\u00a0(University of Oklahoma Press, 2011),\u00a0<em>Congress &amp; the Presidency<\/em>, vol. 40, issue 1, January-April 2013, at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07343469.2013.756368\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07343469.2013.756368<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current copy of Congress &amp; the Presidency carries my review of this interesting book. Mordecai Lee describes the more than century-long battle between the legislative and executive branch over when, how, and on what subjects federal agencies may communicate with the public. The book illustrates a classic principal-agent problem&#8212;how can one person\/organization get another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,73],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","tag-presidential-studies-quarterly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sBCzY-2456","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}