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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... institutional home for these activities . The term “ institutional home " refers to the government agency, agencies, or agency division(s) through which relevant policies are 6 CHAPTER ONE.
... institutional home of a policy has a marked influence on how prior policies and external factors that may in- fluence policy development—such as interest and advocacy groups, other branches of government, and the media—play out in ...
... institutional home of a policy conditions the re- sponses of other political actors to agency attempts at articulating, de- veloping, and carrying out their chosen policy prescriptions. HUD's civil rights office was clearly constrained ...
... home—structure and mission—have direct effects on policy out- comes. An advantaged institutional home will increase the odds of policy success—as measured by the degree to which agency goals as un- derstood by employees are fulfilled ...
... institutional home , we would expect to see the former scenario play out , as civil rights staffers might lack the power within the agency to enact the aggressive measures that they favored . In the case of an advantaged institutional home ...
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