Administering Social Reform in a Federal System: The Case of the Office for Civil Rights
Description:
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 …
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Date:
August 1974
Creator:
Thompson, Gary E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries