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My purposes here are primarily analytic and secondarily programmatic. I hope to present a framework for analysis, which will include elaboration of some of the dimensions and problems involved, and to argue in favor of emphasis upon one particular kind of accountability and the need for the training of professional program evaluators to do the job of program evaluation that is required.
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See Paul Appleby, Big Democracy (Knopf, New York, 1945), for a classic articulation of the myth that public agencies mean devotion to the public interest.
See Joseph P. Harris, Congressional Control of Administration (Brookings, Washington, 1964) ch. 8.
James L. Sundquist, Making Federalism Work (Brookings, Washington, 1969) PP. 3–6.
These quotations, and larger excerpts from the Bell and Holst reports, may be found in Michael D. Reagan (ed.), Politics, Economics and the General Welfare (Scott, Foresman, Chicago, 1965) ch. 5.
For a full review of the revenue sharing-categorical grants issue, with some emphasis on program accountability aspects, see Michael D. Reagan The New Federalism (Oxford University Press, New York, 1972 ).
Duane Lockard, Perverted Priorities of American Politics ( Macmillan, New York, 1971 ) p. 103.
James L. Sundquist (with David W. Davis), Making Federalism Work (Brookings, Washington, D.C.) pp. 3–5.
See Charles R. Adrian, ‘State and Local Government Participation in the Design and Administration of Intergovernmental Programs,’ in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science vol. 359 (May 1965) PP. 35–43.
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Reagan, M.D. (1975). Accountability and Independence in Federal Grants-in-aid. In: Smith, B.L.R. (eds) The New Political Economy: The Public Use of the Private Sector. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02042-3_7
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