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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... goals. One possibility is that Congress or the president exerts tight controls over administrative agencies, essentially dictating how boldly an agency may act. Congress may respond to pub- lic opposition directly by passing legislation ...
... goals is not reducible to the preferences of other branches. Even skeptics of agency independence such as McCubbins and Weingast maintain that bureaucracies do sometimes exercise au- tonomy from the preferences of other branches, but ...
... goals through normal bureaucratic channels.23 Even scholars who criticize sociologists for not taking public opinion seriously tend not to identify public attitudes as a direct cause of agency actions. One must nevertheless consider the ...
... goal he considered urgent: spurring housing production in light of the dire housing short- ages faced at the time by the United States. This point notwithstanding, one cannot explain the differing outcomes of federal desegregation ini ...
... goals as un- derstood by 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 ...
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