Politicians, whether it be presidents or members of Congress, maintain control in a bureaucracy. But in a later article, Governance and the Bureaucracy Problem, authors Meier and O’Toole write of a different approach to who has power in the bureaucracy. Meier and O’Toole call Wood and Waterman’s theory overhead democracy, where “political leaders are effectively able to direct
Politicians, whether it be presidents or members of Congress, maintain control in a bureaucracy. But in a later article, Governance and the Bureaucracy Problem, authors Meier and O’Toole write of a different approach to who has power in the bureaucracy. Meier and O’Toole call Wood and Waterman’s theory overhead democracy, where “political leaders are effectively able to direct