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NCJ Number:	91581

Title:	Federal Narcotics Enforcement - Reorganization and Reform

Author(s):	P 82 Rachal

Date Published:	1982

Page Count:	177

Sponsoring Agency:	Auburn House Westport, CT 06881

Sale Source:	Auburn House 88 Post Road West Westport, CT 06881 United States of America

Type:	Report (Study/Research)

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	Through an examination of the creation of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the events leading to it, and the results produced, this book shows why the Nixon administration's efforts failed and why similar Government reorganizations are also doomed to fail unless basic changes in planning and approach are made.

Abstract:	Initial chapters examine why presidents so willingly embrace reorganization as a panacea for a variety of organizational and political ills and why Congress, interest groups, and Federal agencies do not view reorganization with the same enthusiasm. Subsequent chapters offer an in-depth empirical analysis of the Nixon administration's 1973 attempt to reorganize Federal narcotics law enforcement activities (Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973). This detailed case study into how and why the reorganization was proposed and an examination of its consequences is included to begin to fill the void in the empirical literature on Federal reorganization and to provide an empirical basis on which to build more theoretical explanations for the frequent failure of reorganizations to have a significant impact on the activities of Federal agencies. The analysis demonstrates the effects of two major influences on the plan: organizational needs (revising what were generally agreed to be overlapping and inefficient drug enforcement operations) and political pressures (the need to produce visible action in drug enforcement and on law-and-order issues in general). It is also argued that the administration's failure to review the agencies' methods and strategies at the operating level made the reorganization more of a bureaucratic reshuffling than a fundamental change. Chapter notes and a subject index are provided.

Index Term(s):	Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Drug law enforcement; Organization development; Organization studies



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