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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... interest, a nearly complete reversal over the past forty years. The most egregious forms of discrimi- nation and segregation have diminished considerably. Yet there has also been unmistakable stagnation in the nation's commitment to ...
... interest groups , movement organiza- tions , and public opinion . Some scholars have stressed the importance of ... interests and the media . ” 11 Considering the cases of the Post Office , Agriculture Department , and Interior ...
... interest and advocacy groups, other branches of government, and the media—play out in specific cases. ACTiviSM iN GovERNMENT AGENCiES Employees of government agencies, especially newly hatched ones, often have sizable aspirations for ...
... interest groups. According to some of these arguments, progressive social policies such as the Social Security Act are the result of the more liberal sector of the business class winning out over the more conservative one.20 These works ...
... interests (in building their careers, for instance) through policy innovations is a key insight of historical institutionalism. State autonomy cannot be pre- sumed, as it varies over time and across agencies.28 Much historical insti ...
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