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Redford, Emmette Shelburn was born on September 23, 1904 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of Samuel Shelburn and Clara Cordelia (Dollahite) Redford.
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Democracy's prospects in a society where important decisions affecting individuals are made or carried out through public administrative bodies are the subject if this wide-ranging inquiry. Professor Redford initiates a stimulating discussion, offering fresh insights into those areas where democracy and administrations converge. He presents a model of multi-directional influences on administration and defines three levels of operative politics: micropolitics, in which individuals, companies, and communities seek benefits for themselves; subsystem politics; in which related administrative agencies, congressional committees, and external groups interact in specialized areas of public policy; and macropolitics, in which government leaders and the community at large are involved. Separate chapters focus on the problems of protecting persons as the subjects of administration and as workers in it. Addressing himself to the question of whether the administrative state can be legitimized through democratic control, the author asserts that we can hope strongly for workable democracy, "achievable under the conditions that have produced the administrative state." He finds it gratifying that hte key issues of democratic government are being discussed, and that the American system, in its broadest outlines, offer opportunities for a humane, open society in which administration is responsive to the interest of all. The volume is in the series, Public Administration and Democracy. , edited by Roscoe C. Martin, Maxwell Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University. Emmette S. Redford is Ashbel Smith Professor of Government at the University of Texas. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas, and his Ph.D. From Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Political Science Association (1960-61) and has held appointments as administrator and consultant with various government agencies. (from back cover of this book)
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The subject of regulation is one of the most vital and troublesome in our system of government. In this detailed study of early and mid-twentieth-century regulation of commercial aviation Emmette S. Redford illustrates what happens when government regulates a particular industry. He first sets forth the perspectives for a study of an area of regulation and develops an argument for eclectic perspectives in the study of selected systems, or universes, of social action, such as the performance of an economic function under government regulation. These perspectives are illustrated in the following series of case studies on regulation of commercial aviation: • The significance of belief patterns on the content of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938. • The role of Congress in the regulation of commercial aviation in a two-year period. • The interactions of Congress, the president, and the regulated industry in strengthening safety regulation through passage of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. • The actions of the Civil Aeronautics Board on a set of complicated economic issues in the General Passenger Fare Investigation. • The position of the Air Transport Association in the regulatory pattern. In "An Essay on Evaluation" Redford summarizes what is revealed in the case studies that is significant with respect to the system of government regulation. He searches for standards for evaluating a system of social control, or for evaluating parts of it, and relates his conclusions to issues regarding the beneficence of a system of regulated private supply of a service. The Regulatory Process is a study of interest to the aviation industry, to students of regulation of the economy, and to those who seek an understanding of social systems.
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Redford, Emmette Shelburn was born on September 23, 1904 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of Samuel Shelburn and Clara Cordelia (Dollahite) Redford.
Student, Southwest Texas State College, 1922. Bachelor, University Texas, 1927. Master of Arts, University Texas, 1928.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1933. Doctor of Laws, Austin College, 1966. Doctor of Laws, Texas Christian University, 1970.
Public school teacher, 1923-1925;
tutor, then instructor, University Texas, 1927-1929;
assistant professor government, Texas Christian U., 1930-1931;
tutor, then instructor government, Harvard, 1931-1933;
faculty, University Texas, since 1933;
professor government, University Texas, 1939-1963;
Ashbel Smith professor government, University Texas, 1963-1970;
Ashbel Smith professor government public affairs, University Texas, 1970-1975;
Ashbel Smith professor public affairs, University Texas, since 1975. Visiting professor Duke, 1954-1955, Columbia, summer 1957, Syracuse University, summers1965, 67. Research specialist National Resources Committee, 1936.
Assistant regional price executive, assistant deputy administrator for rationing OPA, 1942-1945. Consultant Office Temporary Controls, 1947, National Security Resources Board, 1950, Economics Stabilization Agency, 1951. Joint economics committee United States Senate, 1959, Pres.Adv.
Committee Government Organisation and Bureau Budget, 1960, United States Department of Agriculture, 1966, 67, National Advisory Commission Selective Service, 1966. Member, Chairman of Commission on personnel Administrative Conference United States, 1961-1962, member, 1968-1970. Member National Council on Humanities, 1966-1970.
Member recombinant advising committee National Institutes of Health, 1976-1979. President University Cooperative Society, Austin, 1946-1971, U. Toggery, Austin, 1958-1966.
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Member American Political Science Association (president 1960-1961), Southwestern Political Science Association (president 1966-1967), Southwestern Social Science Association, American Society Public Administration, American Academy Public Administration, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Claire Bowers, January 2, 1933. Children: Emmette Samuel (deceased), Claire (Mistress John Bullock).