01052pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002300040245007000063260000900133300001300142362000800155520063000163650004200793650002600835773004500861180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aThompson, James R.  aThe Clinton reforms and the administrative ascendancy of Congress  c2001  ap.249-72  aSep  aEarly in the history of the National Performance Review (NPR), observers speculated that the prescriptions it contained, if implemented, would shift authority over the bureaucracy from the legislative branch to the executive branch.  This review of the actual impact of NPR on relations between these key institutional actors finds that to the contrary, NPR has served to strengthen the congressional role in administrative matters in important ways.  Key to this outcome has been the recent tendency, promoted by NPR, toward the disaggregation of administrative structures and systems in the federal government. - Reproduced  aAdministrative reform - United States  aAdministrative reform  aAmerican Review of Public Administration