A MODEST JACKSONIAN PROPOSAL COMMENTARY: Bureaucracy by Dan~El J

RIPON NEW JERSEY

FEBRUARY 15, 1977 Vol. XIII No.4 50 CENTS

A MODEST JACKSONIAN PROPOSAL COMMENTARY: Bureaucracy by Dan~el J. Elazar ~~------~--~------~~ Much is made today about rising taxes necessitated by increased public While these developments have demands for governmental services. sharpened the divisions between gov These in turn necessitate increased ernors and governed on the political numbers of public employees whose sal front, great changes have been taking. aries necessarily continue to increase place in the structure of work.a~d le~ so that increased government costs are sure on the social front. Ind~v~duals built into the system. The increase in the number of government employees must work fewer hours per week to at is in itself a matter of some concern, tain a desired standard of living. not only because of costs incurred but Now, even the hours of the work week because of the proliferation of bureau are being restructured so that some cracy and the reduction in the number people are working four or even three of people in the economically produc days a week rather than the five-day, tive labor force. This development, 9-5 week that has been the norm for the last ~wo generations. Thus, new in turn, is linked t~a third problem, that of the increasing estrangement problems and possibilities are opening up of the average citizen from the govern for the use of the citizenry's time. mental processes as government grows bigger and more complex, and less open Under these situations, would it to those not professionally involved not be possible to restructure the with it, whether as politicians or as administrative systems of government administrators. to bring people into government on a part-time basis as part of their nor Moreover, there are additional mal work-lives. Such a move would consequences from the necessity for restore the best part of the Jackson most persons to choose whether or not ian ideal---namely the idea that most to be actively involved with govern citizens were capable of taking on ment at the outset of their careers. the tasks of governing and indeed, Because government service is a life should do so for the health of the long career for most, it places a prem body politic. Thus, the Jacksoninan ideal could be updated to link it in a ium on "going along" for a person to in a useful way to current psychic successfully advance his own career within the large organizations that and governmental needs. comprise government today. This com The first step in that direc mitment has the tendency to stifle ini tion would be to redefine many posi tiative because nothing is to be gained tions in government to require no in most organizations by "rockit;g th~ more time than is needed to complete boat. Innovation to meet n~w s~tu~t~~ns the tasks assigned to them. Today, or problems becomes increas~ngly d~ff~ many tasks are expanded to require cult in the face of the large organiza full-time (-approximately 40 hours per tions with permanent staffs of career week) service simplyr because that people who can protect themselves agains is how we presently organize work in against what they perceive to be undue our society. Many of the same tasks pressure from the outside. could be performed by the same person administrative structures. Today, in much less time. Some task are sea however, new forms of administrative sonal or require concentrated work at control based on computer technolo at various times of the week or month. gy provide even greater opportuni Others require more manpower at peak ties for such arrangements. The use periods during the day and much less of computers would enable full-time at others. Still other positions can civil servants to coordinate depart be redefined so as to divide their ments, tasks and abilities through tasks among several different people even widely diffused organizational on a part-time basis. structures. Computers make possible unconventional---non-hierarchical-- If jobs were to be restructured forms of organization without sacri in terms of the time actually required ficing efficiency. Indeed, the idea to perform the tasks at hand in each of using the communications matrix case, they could be manned on a part to manage complex organizations ia time basis by people engaged in other the latest word among administrative activities as well. Under such an ar theorists. Such a system converges rangement, minimum cadres of full nicely with the demand for greater time employees would provide the equality in organization life. framework within which part-time civil servants would, in effect, The increasing skill levels of share their new-found free time with American workers at all job levels the pody politic (either voluntari- will create demands for higher levels ly Or on a paid b~sis). Since . of governmental services at the.s~e there is no subst~tute for exper~-. time there are demands for part~c~pa ence in learning to understand pol~ tory democracy and non-hierarchical t1cal life, this would add a new organization. The evolution of pub dimension to citizenship because it lic service suggested above can help would afford citizens an opportuni- solve these three needs in a satis ty to be part of the g~vernmen7al factory, serendipitous way. process and thereby g~~n some ~n-. sight into its operat~on. In add~ What is clear about this pro tion, such an arrangement would help posal is that it, like so many other halt the spiralling costs of govern potential solutions for our current ment and infuse insulated governmen problems can only be effectuated tal agencies with new blood. where there is a great deal of local control. Part-time civil servants Part-time civil servants might in Washington organized to supervise even be compensated wholly or ~n part other layers of civil servants' would through tax reductions or cred~ts-- obviously have limited utility. Part in effect providing payment in kind time talent employed by any govern rather than cash. A system of this mental agency within a local commun kind would open the doors of govern ity to undertake responsibilities for mental service to include people of. neighborhood service could make a grea' widely diverse talents and make ava~l difference. The human dimension alone able talents that might otherwise be would encourage responsibility and inaccessible to government~. At the proper levels of performance ••• just as same time, it would restore some.of such qualities are discouraged by the the good elements of the Jackson~an current system. • approach to government, namely the :irect involvement of the citizenry in the governmental process. Contributer Note: Daniel J. Elazar is director of the Center for the Study A system of this kind could be of Federalism at Temple University in effectuated even under conventional Philadelphia.

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Howard Baker and Tennessee

• "GOP Showed Maturity in Choice of Baker, Ii by Jack W. Germond. Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 8, 1977. Writing on Sen. Howard Baker's elec tion as GOP Senate minority leader, Germond says, "What was perhaps most striking about the whole thing, how ever, was that these were Republicans breaking form. Even in bad times they are usually ideological nitpick ers, quick to divide into factions to quarrel over what constitutes party orthodoxy. But in this case, Baker had the support of many senators who are more liberal than he---and even a few who unquestionably have their notions about 1980 and were promoting a potential rival ••. But the selection of the articulate and am bitious Baker does change the face of the Republican Party in a way the routine elevation of Bob Griffin nev er would have done. For one thing, • "Baker Sees Plenty of Bounce, Yet, it makes the chairmanship far less in .GOP," by Ted Knap. Memphis Press important. Whoever finally gets Scimitar, January 8, 1977. "Although that job can have no illusions that he's not coy about discussing it, Bak he will rival Baker as the leading er says he is not now thinking about voice of the party. in the same way, the presidency and will not decide the White House plan for a new Repub about running until after 1978, when lican 'advisory council' of old bulls he is up for reelection in Tennessee. ---Rockefeller, Reagan and the like The likelihood that President Carter ---suddenly seems less important. will be hard to beat fora second Political leaders whose future is be term would not of itself deter Baker, hind them never get the attention of he says. When he started campaigning those with the potential for power." for the Senate Republican leader he had only two sure votes, while Senate • Back in Tennessee, former Tennessee Republican Whip Robert Griffin was gubernatorial candidate Lamar Alexan claiming 22." der packed up to assist Baker in mak ing the transition to minority leader. I JESSE HELMS Alexander was named "special counsel" to his former boss. The two men are • "GOP'S 1976 Platform Is Worth Reaf widely expected to lead the GOP ticket firming," by William A. Rusher. Human in Tennessee in 1978. Five other EVents, January 22, 1977. "Certainly, possibilities are considered less to [the GOP Platform] was conservative seek the GOP's gubernatorial nomina enough to suit the most demanding tion. Former Gov. Winfield Dunn seems tastes. To cite just one example, Rea content as vice president of the Hos gan's ally, Sen. Jesse Helms of North pital Corporation of America. Former Carolina, insisted on amending the gube.rnatorial aspirant Nat Winston Ford-approved draft to include phrase seems content as an executive of Hos ology affirming that morality has a pital affiliates, a Dunn competitor. place in American foreign policy. Former Sen. Bill Brock has a new job Both Ford and Kissinger were strenu as Republican National Committee head. ously against the amendment, interpet Congressman Robin Beard seems intent ing it (correctly) as an implicit cri to gaining seniority in Congress and ticism of Kissinger's tendency to neu State Sen. Victor Ashe is likely to tralism on moral questions. Helms, wait until 1982 for a gubernatorial however, was adamant,"either I get run. that plank,' he warned Ford's platform spokesman, 'or I go straight to Chicago" • "Helms Is Out To Make An Unelectable ---meaning to the American Independent Joke Out Of The GOP," by Ron Hendren. Party Convention, which was preparing Arizona Republic, November 19, 1976. to meet in Chicago a week later, and "Jesse Helms is a nobody. Worse than was ready to nominate any prominent that, he is a sometime Democrat, a one conservative Republican who would run time television commentator who has nev against Ford. Helms got his plan (and er demonstrated more than a two-minute skipped Chicago) • grasp of any issue. He is not a Barry Goldwater. He is not a Ronald Reagan. • "Nominee in Trouble," by Rowland He is not even a Strom Thurmond. He is Evans and Robert Novak. January 17, a joke. And the people of North Caro 1977. "The Republican party's ideo lina will be quick to tell you that logical split was vividly brought they are embarrassed that the Nixon home to the party's new national landslide of 1972 swept Helms into of chairman, William Brock, when Sen. fice, the first Republican senator from Jesse Helms of North Carolina once the Tar-heel state since Reconstruction. again raised the incendiary issue of He may well be the last, because his Panama Canal control. Helms proposed unseemly and throughly self-centered to Brock that Ronald Reagan represent performance has disgusted the people the Republican Party nationally on who put him there. In short, two years the canal issue ••• Since Brock has no hence, Jesse Helms is not going to have intention of reopening that struggle, the people of North Carolina to kick he is not about to follow Helms' ad around any more ... He would do to the vice ••• Helms, who has emerged as an GOP what he has done to himself, render aggressive and influential figure on it an unfunny, unelectable joke. He the Republican right, telephoned would drive out the few remaining mid Brock shortly after his election to dle-roaders in the Republican Party, and congratulate him for winning as a he would finish off what is left of the 'born-again conservative.' The two-party system in Congress ••• We need phrase reveals the dubious but widely a strong, effective voice of reason held view by many conservatives that from the other side, not a motley rabble Brock lost his Senate seat in Tennes of lightweight, purer-than-thou extrem see last year by straying too far ists bent on having things their way, left and now has moved right again or no way at all, willing to destroy a to be elected national chairman." great and once proud party for their nt,.n n~rTnw p.nn."

8IPOI: Update THE CONFIRMATION OF GRIFFIN BELL

Democrats are, one supposes, en- . titled to a double standard. After all, DEMOCRATS the same criteria that were used to eval John C. Culver uate Harrold Carswell should not be used George McGovern to evaluate Attorney General Griffin Gaylord Nelson Bell. Nor should President Carter be William Proxmire held accountable for statements he made Donald W. Riegle, Jr. about taking the attorney general out of politics in the heat of campaign, it seems. There is, one supposes, a differ REPUBLICANS: ent perspective on things when a Demo Edward Brooke crat occupies the West Wing. Henry Bellmon Clifford Case Had the Democratic members of the John Chaffee Senate applied the same criteria to the Robert Dole Bell nomination as were used to defeat Clifford Hansen Carswell, Bell would not have been con S.I. Hayakawa firmed by a lopsided 75-21 vote and Sen. John Heinz Birch Bayh(D-Ind.) would not have found Jacop Javits himself leading Bell's defense. In an Richard Lugar editorial in the January 15 FORUM, Ripon Charles McC. Mathias suggested Democrats ought not to apply Robert-Packwood a double standard. Such vision and fore Charles Percy sight was apparently beyond all but five Richard Schweiker Senate Democrats. They joined sixteen Malcolm Wallop Senate RepUblicans to \Tote against Bell. Lowell Weicker

-'- POLITICS: lew Jersey CHANGING THE NAMES, NOT ISSUES

In New Jersey gubernatorial poli tical advantage. His state of the state tics, the names change a little every message had a distinctly conservative four years, but the issues are qua tone to it this year on issues like drenially constant: the income tax welfare, crime, and state spending. Em and government malpractice. Four years phasizing the posterior, Byrne at one ago, the Democrats brought a "clean," point said:"As long as there is honest apolitical judge off the state bench productive work to be done, nobody who to defeat the GOP which was beset by is capable of doing it should be able income tax and corruption difficulties. to sit on his duff and draw welfare It is the Republicans' fondest hope checks. .. Byrne's budget mes sage--'-de that the Democrats will renominate Gov. livered in a sweater---was sufficiently Brendan Byrne. conservative that Republican· critics were hard up for criticism. He at Byrne's vulnerability is attested tempted to finesse the income tax is to by the long lines of would-be suc sue by packaging in reform wrappings cessors in both the Demo~ratic and Re and announcing property tax rebates pUblican Party. Although Byrne himself this spring. has not announced his reelection inten tions, his behavior has left little Another area in which the gover doubt that he intends to fight for his nor that backed right issuburhan, low job. The once almost anti-political income housing. Realizing that the leg qovernor seems to have adopted a dis islature would not move on the issue, tinctly political style. He's parcel Byrne appointed a task force to come ing out patronage jobs with the aplomb with proposals for executive action. of a Jersey City ward boss and using The group's proposals for numerical his appointees to spearhead criticism quotas for each locality were swiftly 'of gubernatorial aspirants. He has at put in the deep freeze. Meanwhile, New tempted to shore up relations with the Jersey's cold weather has allowed the legislature and key counties by appoint governor to appear more gubernatorial ing legislators to key posts in his ad than usual. He has excelled at the ministration. Labor has been assiduous ceremonial functions of his office-- ly courted---despite the strong opposi particularly riding in helicopters. tion of state construction union lead The state's natural gas problems have ers---By Byrne's backing for completion allowed him to act more officious than of I-95. His willingness to repudiate usual. Still, his executive orders past positions is quickly becoming leg limiting thermostat settings and store endary ••• reaching even life and death hours have not endeared him to the proportions in Byrne's reversal of his small business community---a constitu position on signing a death penalty ency somewhat larger than that for bill. Writing in the New Jersey edi helicopter pilots and manufacturers. tion of the New York Daily News, John McLaughlin said: Byrne's basic problem, however, This is the same Brendan Byrne, is the income tax. New Jersey voters who, as a Superior Court judge, wrote have a pronounced preference for "clean" the opinion setting aside New Jersey's anti-tax candidates. That preference old capital punishment law as unconsti was clearly indicated by the near-upset tutional. of a Democratic legislative leader in The same man, who, when running last fall's congressional election by a for the governorship, said he was Republican nobody. Byrne is clearly 'philosophically opposed' to execu tagged as the income tax man in the tions and that he would stay that way state and though he considers the tax until somebody convinced him that to be a major accomplishment, the vo killing a murderer would help stop ters are less inclined to be so char murders. itable. Imposition of the tax severe But three three years in office ly strained Byrne's relations with his have taught the governor the wisdom own party; State Democratic Chairman of philosophical opposition to unpop James P." Dugan has said Byrne is sure ular positions. to lose his reelection attempt. Re gardless of political affiliation, The capital punishment issue is gubernatorial candidates will run only one of the issues on which Byrne against the state income tax while re has moved right in order to gain poli- maining purposefully vague about new sources of state revenue. That is the If Democrats eventually favor New Jersey way ••• that is the Byrne way. a North Jersey candidate, the lead During his OWn campaign in 1973, Byrne ing possibility is Jersey City Mayor said:"There's no need for an income Paul Jordan. Although Dr. Jordan tax in the foreseeable future." can count on the Hudson County organ ization's support, the Hudson County It is characteristic of New Jer organization isn't what it used to sey that the strongest candidates for be. Indeed, all county organizations governor are non-legislative---e.g., aren't what they used to be and that they do not have income tax records. is why New Jersey's gub~rnatorial It is far easier to obfuscate from politics is so confusing. County the safe vantage point of Capitol hill organizations, once preeminent in the or a court bench. Byrne's predecessor, state, would now have trouble deliver Gov. William Cahi~l, also got in trou ing mail, let alone votes. Primary ble on the income tax issue, but he politics used to revolve on the abil first go elected from his congresion ity of candidates to secure organiza al office. Two possible Democratic tional backing in key counties. And opponents of Byrne are U.S.Reps though the "organization line" is Robert A. Roe of Wayne and James. J. still impor~ant, organization backing Florio of Camden. Both men have in is a euphemism in the state's increas creased their public visiblity in re ingly factionalized politics. The cent months. Florio has the advantage result is a proliferation of candi of an Italian name combined with a dates. Other Democratic candidates strong base in traditionally Repub (announced variety) include State As lican South Jersey. He isn't spe semblyman Charles B. Yates, former cifically critical of Byrne, hewever: Labor and Industry Commissioner Joseph "I agree with many of the things the A. Hoffman, and former gubernatorial things the governor is doing. I just aide Jeffery Ketterson. Meanwhile, don't think he can win." Jordan's gubernatorial campaign has temporarily stalled. An attempt by State Sen. Frank Dodd, who re allies to preempt the field with phone cently took himself 6ut of the guber calls--":"The train is pulling out of natorial race, has been less reticent the station. Better get on board"-- about criticizing the governor:"The failed. And thou,gh Jordan himself is people of New Jersey have not had a a "clean," reform candidate, there is genuine Democratic governor---a man still a certain stigma attached to Hud who accurately represented the views son County politicians as a result of of the overwhelming majority of the Jersey City's corrupt past. (Jordan's citizens of this state---since 1969." predecessor went to jail rather than Trenton. ) The GOP's field is almost as varied and complex as the Democrats'_ There are two major announced candi dates: former State Senate president Raymond H. Bateman of Somerset and former Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean of Livingston. Both represent the moderate-progressive wing of the GOP, both oppose the current income tax and both have trouble with the issue because of previous pro-tax votes in the legislature. Bateman tried the Jordan maneuveur by announ cing in December in an attempt to block Kean. A public relations exec utive, Bateman's backers read like a ~ho's who of GOP money. Bateman suf fers several handicaps, however. He was considered the GOP frontrunner in 1969, but backed out in favor of Ca hill. He perhaps could have persuaded Cahill to back out in 1973, but instead became his campaign manager. Although he is now running as an anti-tax candidate, he was a backer of Cahill's agree. David A. Maraniss of the Tren income tax. Furthermore, Bateman's at ton Sunday Times Advertiser wrote~ tempts to secure organization support cently: have attracted supporters like Bergen The substantive differences be County's former GOP Chairman Anthony tween Kean and Bateman, in fact, only Statile who are likely to cost him al indirectly touch upon concerns of New lies there and elsewhere. Jersey voters. They have more to do with the Republican Party---what is The revelation that former Secre wrong with it and what can be done tary of State Paul Sherwin is advising about it. Bateman also hurts the Somerset County Many of Bateman's followers tend legislator. Sherwin was convicted in a to believe the resurgence of the Re bribery-extortion conspiracy during publican Party is all but inevitable, Gov. Cahill's administration. Byrne that it merely awaits the results of may have been spared some embarassment the election next November. Kean by the decision of his secretary of shows more concern than that, at least state, Edward Crabiel, to resign. Cra outwardly. He believes the party must biel had been suspended from his post be rejuvenated from top to bottom. when he was indicted on a bid-rigging "I'm just not comfortable with charge, but was reinstated when the the shape of the Republican Party in judge ruled that the statute of limi this state, and I don't see how any tations had elapsed. one could be," Kean said. "Fewer than 20 percent of the people are Kean also has problems. First, willing to associate themselves with he draws from the same electoral base us---one of the two major parties. as Bateman---and Bateman got there We have consistently discouraged first. Second, he has lost the influ young people from participating. We ence of two men who might have been have more consistently discouraged counted on to generate support---Pres black people from participating. ident Gerald Ford and Ford campaign "manager James Baker III. Had Ford Because Kean and Bateman have been elected President or Baker elect both attempted to edge rightward, par ed GOP national chairman, they might tipularly on the income tax issue, have been in a position to reward they have limited the maneuvering Kean for his service as Ford campaign room available to more conservative manager in the state. Although Kean Republicans. Former Treasury Secre lacks Bateman's well-heeled backers, tary William Simon has already taken he is considerably better off than himself out of the race. State Sen. his poorly-dressed image would indi James H. Wallwork would cut into cate. Indeed, Newark Star-Ledger Kean's Essex County base, but one columnist Fred Hillman half-jokingly associate commented after Kean's anti attributed Kean's switch to more styl tax statement, "It was a bit more than ish apparel as an indication of his we expected." Wallwork has a mixed elective seriousness. The advantages image as a somewhat demagogic reformer of Kean's own wealth are coupled with who would still be a natural heir to the edge he gains in his choice of the conservative GOP constituency of campaign consultants---the Washington former Republican gubernatorial can based firm of Bailey, Deardourff, and didate Sandman(who is backing Bate Eyre which has a nearly legendary rec man.) Wallwork's abrasive nature has ord of success with moderate Republi alienated many of his legislative col can candidates. (Bateman applied too leagues, however. late for their services). Like Bate man, Kean opposes the current income If Wallwork were to enter the GOP tax and has pledged to let it expire. race, Bateman and Kean would probably He has refused, however to rule out hope that State Assemblyman Francis X. the possibility of another income tax, McDermott would join as well, thus saying, liThe concept of an income tax McDermott would join as well, thus is not the issue. It is the way this splitting the conservative vote. Mc tax was imposed and the fact people Dermott, however, has been vocally urg no longer believe us as a result." ing U.S.Rep. Matthew Rinaldo(R) to en ter the race. Rinaldo has sounded like Bateman and Kean recently held a potential candidate recently, calling their first debate, but both acknow for elimination of the constitutional ledge they agree on more than they dis- requirement for a "thorough and effi- cient" educational system that was used The situation in Bergen County was by courts to demand new state aid and comp'licated by Woodcock's decision to thereby the income tax. Although Rin resign as prosecutor March 1. Perhaps aldo has made the requisite bows against hoping to see Republicans concentrate the state income tax, he is considered on cutting each other up, Gov. Byrne unlikely to enter the gubernatorial accepted Woodcock's resignation immed race unless he has a clear and free iately. Although Woodcock won't offi shot at the nomination. Unfettered by cially enter the race until after March a recent legislative record and with a 1, he's said that "if I were a betting strong Union County base, Rinaldo would man, I would say I'm in." Like Bateman, probably be the GOP favorite if he en and unlike Kean, Woodcock is a proponent tered the race. of the death penalty. He also voted for the income tax before his defeat in 1973. Two other names are also promin He's also taken the unauthorized approach ently mentioned: Bergen County prose toward funding his office of suing the cutor Joseph Woodcock, who has received County Board of Freeholders for addition widespread exposure in several sensa al money. Not once but three times. tional cases, and u.S.District Court Judge Frederick Lacey. Woodcock would Meanwhile, the Newark Star-Ledger appeal to the same voter base as Kean revealed that Byrne's daughter has been and Bateman, but his candidacy is more using a state car and state credit card viable than Lacey's. New Jersey voters while attending college in Washington have been burned once by an Irish judge, D.C. When questioned, Byrne denied any it is argued. Lacey would probably knowledge of the arrangement---saying have to be drafted to run, and with the his wife takes care of the state cars. GOP's large stable of candidates, that Undoubtedly, many Republicans borrowed is unlikely. Statile's backing of Bate a line from Byrne's budget message man may have s?urred the interest in earlier that week and told each other, Lacey of Statile's Bergen rival, County " ••• and that's something worth cheering Republican Chairman Richard J. Vander about." P1aat. But, as the Newark Star-Ledger's Fred Hillman has pointed out Regardless of the primary outcomes, ••. Repub1ican'organizationa1 types Jersey voters will probably have one ad aren't volunteering their support be ditional choice in November •. State Sen. cause, as one long-time Lacey watcher Anthony Imperia1e(Ind-Newark) could c~t puts it, many of them really don't know votes from both parties. He leaves 11t him. t1e confusion where he stands on any As politicians, they'd like to issue. In October's Columbus Day pa: know what kind of politician he'll be. ade, he wore only a barrel to symbo17ze They'd like to know what kind of gover his opposition to the income tax. H1S nor he aspires to be. And, being a ner championship of white ethnics in Newark vous breed at heart, some of them would has been amply chronicled in the press. also like to be sure if Lacey runs on He runs a detective agency, is followed a plank to throw the rascals out, they by a bodyguard, once taught karate, car aren't the rascals he has in mind. ries a gun "in performance of my ~ork The Ripon Society is now loca.ted at: as an investigator," and clearly 1S a 800 18th st., N.W., Wash., D.C.20006. man on whom Jersey politicians should Phone: 202-347-6477. turn their backs with care •• FORUM Published semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, 1609 Conn. Ave., N.W., Wash ington, D.C. 20009. Second class post a~ paid at Washington, D.C. and other mailing offices.