In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America’s most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America’s big government works and why reforms that include adding a million more people to the federal workforce by 2035 might help to slow government’s growth while improving its performance.

Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction / 3
Part 1: Bring Back the Bureaucrats
by John J. DiIulio Jr.
1: Leviathan by Proxy / 13
2: Big Brother Is Outsourcing: Leveraged, Not Limited, Government / 29
3: The Federal Workforce Is Overloaded, Not Bloated / 55
4: If We Knew Then What We Know Now / 79
5: More Federal Bureaucrats, Less Big/Bad Government / 91
Part 2: Dissenting Points of View
6: The Government We Need for the Things We Want
by E. J. Dionne Jr. / 115
7: No Cure for the Sclerotic State
by Charles Murray / 123
Epilogue: Reply to E. J. Dionne Jr. and Charles Murray by John J. DiIulio, Jr. / 131
Notes / 143
About the Contributors / 167

John J. DiIulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania and has served as Founding Faculty Director of Penn's Robert A. Fox Leadership Program; Fox Leadership International (FLI); Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS); and Partnership for Effective Public Administration and Leadership Ethics (PEPALE). He taught previously at Princeton University and Harvard University. An award-winning political science scholar and popular teacher, he has served as a senior fellow and directed research centers at several think tanks, including the Brookings Institution and the Manhattan Institute.

A member of several government reform commissions, he served as the founding director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under President George W. Bush. He helped reconstitute that office under President Barack Obama. Dr. DiIulio is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books, including a leading textbook, American Government, Bring Back the Bureaucrats, and Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future.