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Ashford, Douglas Elliott was born on August 28, 1928 in Lockport, New York, United States. Son of Howard John and Doris (Saunders) Ashford.
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Under the new socialist regime of Francois Mitterand, how much will French policymaking change? How has it functioned under previous regimes? How does the French process compare with policymaking in other industrial states? These are some of the questions Douglas E. Ashford considers in analyzing six major areas of domestic policymaking in France administrative reform, local and regional reform, economic policy, industrial relations, social security, and immigration. Each case is accompanied by selected readings translated from official government documents and the writings of critics of official policy, including readings from the Mitterand period.The book offers an unusually strong point of view, one that differs from the standard interpretations of French Politics. "Policy and Politics in France" is the third volume in the series, "Policy and Politics in Industrial States", edited by Douglas E. Ashford, Peter J. Katzenstein, and T. J. Pempel. Each volume consists of a balance of provocative analysis and documents for six issues. Four topics - economic policy, labor relations, social welfare, and the internal organization of the state - are common to all volumes; the remaining two are reserved for policy problems peculiar to the individual country. Douglas E. Ashford is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Pittsburgh. He was formerly Director of the Western Societies Program at Cornell University. He is author of "Policy and Politics in Britain: The Limits of Consensus", also in this series.
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This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite consensus that took shape a century or more before the British democracy took over the broad responsibilities associated with the modern welfare state. Modern political parties, mass democracy, even a modern administration, were grafted onto a working system, but the essential principles of cabinet and ministry responsibilities have survived with relatively little modification. The result has been a concentration of power at the top, while demands on government have proliferated. Ashford analyzes six policy areas administrative reform, economic policymaking, industrial relations, local and regional policies, social security (social welfare in Britain), race and immigration to see how political constraints like these operate in a time of immensely complex government. Two cases (administrative reform and economic policy) deal with restructuring government; two deal with important social issues (social security and race relations). Each case analysis is accompanied by selected readings from official government documents and the writings of the critics of official policy. The analysis offers a strong point of view, unusual in a textbook, that is sure to invite scholarly debate. For example, it argues that although power is quite concentrated in the British system, it is exercised most often in the direction of avoiding decisions. More often than not, the grand adversarial politics played out in parliament are ineffective in dealing with the complexities of the modern welfare state. In practice, when major changes in policy are at issue, labour and conservatives may act less like true antagonists and more like two groups sharing a consensus. Douglas E. Ashford is Director, Western Studies Program, Cornell University.
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Ashford, Douglas Elliott was born on August 28, 1928 in Lockport, New York, United States. Son of Howard John and Doris (Saunders) Ashford.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown U., 1950; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, (England), 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1961.
Assistant professor comparative politics, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1961-1963; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1963-1964; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1964-1968; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1968-1982; Andrew W. Mellon professor comparative politics, U. Pittsburgh, since 1982. Consultant National Science Foundation, Washington, since 1968, National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, since 1972. Member steering committee Council for European Studies, New York City, 1974-1978.
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Served to First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1952-1955. Member member American Political Science Association, American Oxonian Society, Policy Studies Association, British Studies Group (member Executive Committee 1979-1982), Tocqueville Society.
Married Margaret Anderson, May 25, 1955 (divorced 1970). Children: Elizabeth, Douglas, David, Michael. Married second Karen V. Knudson, June 8, 1974.
1 child, Matthew.