Administrative Science Quarterly 1963
Public Administrators and Community Decision Making
Abstract
This report focuses on the community decision-making roles accompanying the political statuses of administrators and of putative influentials. Comparisons are drawn between the administrative elites of two Southern communities and between the administrators and the influentials within each community. In both communities administrators were found to be moderately to highly involved in, and influential over, community decision making. Similarities in their role enactments were more frequent than dissimilarities. Compared with the influentials, the administrators held lower socioeconomic status, ranked lower on one of three measures of politicization, were highly involved in somewhat fewer and in different issues, and performed different kinds of roles in issue resolution. Interaction and interdependency exist between the two status groupings within each locality. AM. Kent Jennings is a research associate at the Brookings Institution.
- DOI
- 10.2307/2390885
- Sources
- openalex