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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782979803321

Autore

Farmbry Kyle <1970->

Titolo

Administration and the other [[electronic resource] ] : explorations of diversity and marginalization in the political administrative state / / Kyle Farmbry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-49425-2

9786612494253

0-7391-3387-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Innovations in the Study of World Politics

Disciplina

351.01

Soggetti

Public administration - United States - History

Humanism

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Diversity and the Administrative State; Chapter 01. Theoretical Foundations; Part I. THE EARLY REPUBLIC; Chapter 02. The Expert in a Period of American Enlightenment; Chapter 03. Slavery; Chapter 04. The Native American as The Other; Part II. THE FOUNDING ERA; Chapter 05. The Social Sciences and The Other; Chapter 06. The African American Male as The Other; Chapter 07. The Immigrant as The Other-Part I; Part III. TRANSITIONAL CONCERNS; Chapter 08. Housing The Other; Chapter 09. The War on Poverty; Chapter 10. Educating The Other

Part IV. THE OTHER IN AN ERA OF LATE MODERNITYChapter 11. Welfare and The Other; Chapter 12. Counting and Categorizing The Other; Chapter 13. The Immigrant as The Other-Part II; Conclusion: Reconciliation with The Other; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The American state, with its various instruments of policy-making and implementation, has found itself wrestling with various policy challenges related to matters of marginalization. Administration and the Other uses historical cases to examine the social construction of groups in American policy and proposes using the various lessons that



are often unspoken in discussions of the history and evolution of the field to launch a discourse of inclusion and connectivity.