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- Title
Federal Regional Councils: Networking Organizations for Policy Management in the Intergovernmental System.
- Authors
Gage, Robert W.
- Abstract
The article aims to clarify the confusion that has existed about the Federal Regional Councils and their ability to accomplish many kinds of tasks they have been assigned by several administrations. The FRC system was operational for 11 years, and it had some notable successes. The intrinsic value of FRCs to policy management in the intergovernmental system should be recognized for what it is at this juncture, and this should be recorded in the public administration literature. The article critically analyzes the capabilities of Federal Regional Councils. The conclusions of a number of prior reviews and evaluations of the FRC system are cited in this analysis, as well as observations of elected officials, administrators, and scholars who have worked with FRCs or observed them in action. An emphasis will be placed upon the more recent FRC activities to underscore the main point of this article, namely: that the concept of the Federal Regional Council as a policy networking organization provides a much more productive way to understand the councils than the customary view of FRCs as vehicles for interagency and intergovernmental program coordination in grants administration.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; INTERGOVERNMENTAL cooperation; MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT agencies; PUBLIC officers; POLITICAL planning
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1984, Vol 44, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/975864