Constituency Bias in a Federal Career System?
| Autor: | E. Thomas Tuchmann, Ben W. Twight, Fremont J. Lyden |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Marketing
Service (business) Public Administration Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Public administration Publics System a Preference 0506 political science 0502 economics and business Agency (sociology) Value (economics) 050602 political science & public administration Sociology 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Administration & Society. 22:358-377 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3039 0095-3997 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/009539979002200305 |
| Popis: | A discriminant analysis of environmentalist and industrialist constituent publics of the U.S. Forest Service along with agency responses to 26 attitude, preference, and conservation value questions demonstrates that field-level line officers of this elite federal career system share attitudes and preferences with only one of these constituencies. Rather than holding the middle-ground position between these two groups, described by Culhane in a 1981 book on politics and the public lands. Service attitudes are more consistent with a 1979 land use decision made by their agency, which allocated 58.3% of the U.S. de facto wilderness land for the use of its industrial clientele and 24.3% in favor of the environmentalist position. Group means (centroids) show that Forest Service managers' attitudes overlap heavily with their industrialist constituency, but only slightly overlap with their environmentalist constituency. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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