Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold: The Crisis in Governing,

Abstract

The Reagan Administration has proposed a number of policy initiatives which have the effect of decentralizing governmental services which, until recently, had increasingly become the responsibility of the Federal (i.e., centralized) government. This paper inquires as to the possible effects of such decentralization tendencies. Drawing upon approaches advocated by the policy sciences and future studies, the analysis weighs goals, trends, and conditions to arrive at a set of projections and policies. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121326

Entities

People

  • Peter Deleon

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • California
  • Corporations
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Local Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Ideologies
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

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