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- Title
Community Power and Public Welfare.
- Authors
Paulson, Wayne; Butler, Edgar W.; Pope, Hallowell
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to apply a theoretical and methodological orientation developed in some structural community power research to the county as a unit of analysis in hopes of assessing the viability of both the unit and the orientation. Community power studies to date have not identified boundaries for the concept of "community." However, of the variety of possible issue-areas that could be related to power structures, some are relevant for municipalities, others for the county, and others encompass smaller and larger corporate units. Both the scope of these issues-areas and the participants who shape their outcomes must still be considered "local" in spite of the inability to determine community boundaries. It would appear, therefore, that researches of local power structures must confront alternative units of analysis such as the municipality or the county. The immediacy of this problem has been underscored by the organization of most Community Action Agencies under the Office of Economic Opportunity on a county or multi-county basis, and by public welfare, which tends to be administered on a county basis.
- Subjects
COMMUNITY power; PUBLIC welfare; COMMUNITY organization; POWER (Social sciences); COMMUNITY development consultants; MUNICIPAL services
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1969, Vol 28, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1969.tb03092.x