Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the SuburbsPrinceton University Press, 2010 M11 16 - 256 pages Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to implementing rigorous antidiscrimination policies, and why the agency's efforts were derailed by Nixon. |
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... bureaucracies are potentially capable of au- tonomous action , meaning that they may devise strategies of action inde- pendently of other branches of government , capitalists and organized business groups , political parties , interest ...
... bureaucracies. What varies is the degree to which agencies successfully pursue and attain (or par- tially attain) their activist goals. One possibility is that Congress or the president exerts tight controls over administrative agencies ...
... bureaucracies do sometimes exercise au- tonomy from the preferences of other branches, but only when there are missteps at the appointment stage.19 Moreover, an agency's abil- ity to convey legitimacy can strongly condition the ...
... bureaucracies is necessary. STATE AUToNoMy AND INSTiTUTioNAL CAPABiLiTy The notion that state actors may pursue their own ideas or interests (in building their careers, for instance) through policy innovations is a key insight of ...
... bureaucracies both managed to interpret their limited congres- sional mandates creatively to justify taking bold, race-conscious action in their respective areas. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits entities receiving ...
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