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Nordlinger, Eric Allen was born on September 18, 1939 in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany. Son of Leo and Kate (Levi) Nordlinger. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1951.
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When Nordlinger first wrote this book in the late 1970s, it broke much ground by treating military regimes as objects of serious, objective study, rather than subjective criticism.
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8vo. (5) 310 pp, list of 4 diagrams and 16 tables, acknowledgments, I. Urban Decentralization: Evaluating Four Models; II. Boston's Little City Halls: Purposes; III. The Boston Bureaucracy: A Theoritical Analysis; IV. Little City Hall Managers and Department Supervisors; V. The Office of Public Service, The Mayor and the Commissioners; VI. Citizens as Clients; VII. The Manager, The Community and the Mayor; VIII. The Office of Public Service and its Critics. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "Mayor Kevin White's Little City Hall program has aimed to increase governmental responsiveness, reduce citizen alienation, and improve city services. This study places the program in a historical-conceptual context beginning with Jefferson's and Madison's opposing views on decentralization and then examines in detail its problems and achievements, relationships with municipal agencies, department commissioners, the Mayor's Office, community groups, and neighborhood residents. It also offers a theoretical analysis of the behavior and performance characteristics of the Boston bureaucracy, which is applicable to other cities."
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In this major revisionist study, Eric A. Nordlinger poses two critical questions about democratic politics. How are the public policy decisions of the democratic state in America and Europe to be explained? To what extent is the democratic state an autonomous entity, that is, a state that translates its own policy preferences into public policies? On the Autonomy of the Democratic State challenges the central assumption of liberal and Marxist scholars, journalists, and citizens alike―that elected and appointed public officials are consistently constrained by society in the making of public policy. Nordlinger demonstrates that public officials are not only frequently autonomous insofar as they regularly act upon their own policy preferences, but also markedly autonomous in doing so even in the face of opposition from the most politically powerful groups in society: voters, well-organized and financed interest groups, national associations of farmers, workers, employers, and large corporations. Here is a book in which wide-ranging generalizations are tightly bound up with empirical examples and data. Nordlinger systematically identifies the state's many capacities and opportunities for enhancing its autonomy. These are used by public officials to shape, alter, neutralize, deflect, and resist the policy preferences and pressures of societal groups. Even the highly fragmented national state in America is shown to be far more independent of societal demands than claimed by the conventional wisdom.
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CONTENTS: 1) The Study of Praetorianism 2) A Political Sociology of the Officer Corps 3) The Coup D'Etat 4) Officers as Governors 5) National Integration and Economic Change 6) An Assessment of Praetorianism and its Aftermath. The Contemporary Comparative Politics Series will treat the more enduring as well as the more recent themes, approaches, and problems pertaining to the study of political systems. In all cases, the volumes are pointed toward the following goals: to illustrate the relationship between theory and method without being theoretically pretentious or methodologically self-conscious; to underline the essential interrelatedness between fact and value or empirical and normative considerations in politics; to inform the reader in brief compass and in ordinary language, free from the jargon and neologisms of modern social science. The final and overriding goal of the series is to show what the comparative political scientist does and why this is an activity of intrinsic interest for the reader and considerable utility for society.
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Nordlinger, Eric Allen was born on September 18, 1939 in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany. Son of Leo and Kate (Levi) Nordlinger. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1951.
Bachelor of Arts with honors, Cornell Univercity, 1961; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1966.
Assistant professor political science, Brandeis U., 1965-1970; associate professor, Brandeis U., 1970-1971; associate Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1968-1990; associate Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, 1990-1994; lecturer government, Harvard University School Medicine, 1969-1970; associate professor political science, Brown U., 1971-1973; professor, Brown U., 1973-1994; department chairman political science, Brown U., 1978-1985; associate Center for Foreign Policy Development, Brown U., 1988-1990; Executive Committee, Watson Institute for International Studies, 1989-1993.
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(When Nordlinger first wrote this book in the late 1970s, ...)
(The author's goal is the development of a theoretical sta...)
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( In this major revisionist study, Eric A. Nordlinger pos...)
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Married Carol Maurine Uhl, January 7, 1978. Children: Alexandra, Oliver.