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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... Employees of federal agencies are key players in the formation of social policies, despite the fact that the legislative and judicial branches are more visible political actors in the policy-making process. Legislative language is often ...
... Employees of government agencies, especially newly hatched ones, often have sizable aspirations for effecting change. Appointees with political ambitions typically want to develop reputations as instigators of action, not as overseers ...
... employees are fulfilled—while a disadvantaged home will decrease these odds. An advantaged institutional home is one where agency employees consider the mission in question to be primary, other agency missions do not conflict with the ...
... employees may view the aggressive approach as directly threatening their own ca- reer objectives and may seek to undermine bold action . So , while an ad- vocacy group may capture a civil rights staff , this capture may be only ...
... employees by firing them or forcing their resignations. As discussed in the previous section, the White House has struggled to get agencies to act as the executive wishes. Given the difficulty with which agency ac- tions can be brought ...
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