Understanding the State Department

Publication Date: September 1987

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James T. Hackett; Robert M. Soofer

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Government reform

Type: Report

Abstract:

Increasingly, observers conclude that the State Department needs change--that it needs new people, new ideas, new approaches, and new leadership. The problems of clientitis, overstaffing, watered-down recommendations, institutuional biases, and the lack of effective control of foreign policy must be addressed if the State Department is to become a more effective and faithful executor of the President's foreign policy.