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Administering Social Reform in a Federal System: The Case of the Office for Civil Rights

The purpose of this study is to explore the administrative setting of the Office for Civil Rights, treating especially the functional requisites of agencies: namely, the development of a viable role within its set and the internal necessity of developing among its functionaries a degree of cohesion and sense of common purpose. This case study is designed, moreover, to challenge the naturalistic assumptions of the pluralist model of administrative theory. Chapter I develops the theme of "social engineering agencies" as a distinctively new genre of public agency in the American political setting and adumbrates the theoretical challenges which these organizations present to the conventional pluralist paradigm.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500685
Date08 1900
CreatorsThompson, Gary E.
ContributorsThompson, John T., Pickens, Donald Kenneth, Newell, Charldean, Smith, Cordell A., Kamp, Henry Wilbur, 1922-
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 278 leaves : ill., Text
CoverageUnited States
RightsPublic, Thompson, Gary E., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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