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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500685 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Thompson, Gary E. |
| Contributors | Thompson, John T., Pickens, Donald Kenneth, Newell, Charldean, Smith, Cordell A., Kamp, Henry Wilbur, 1922- |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vii, 278 leaves : ill., Text |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | Public, Thompson, Gary E., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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