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Administrative Agencies As Formulators Of Legislative Policy In Minnesota, James A. Seitz
Administrative Agencies As Formulators Of Legislative Policy In Minnesota, James A. Seitz
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT - An investigation to determine the significant influence of administrators on the formulation of legislative policy, in the State of Minnesota, during the 1963 Session of the Minnesota Legislature. While it is claimed that not all bills were developed by admnistrators, the hierarchical process of those bills formulated by the bureaucracy ·of slate government deserved special attention. Once personnel developing legislation were identified within each department as being part of the informal process, some selected attitudes of ~dministrators toward their bills and the legislative process were examined through the use of a questionnaire.
The Status Of Political Theory In The Study Of Politics, Jooinn Lee
The Status Of Political Theory In The Study Of Politics, Jooinn Lee
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT - A general consensus among political scientists during the last decade seems to indicate that political science as a discipline will have a brighter future if it is guided by an approach that is behaviorally relevant; political theory is the least significant field of political science because it is least relevant to a behavioral treatment of the discipline. In this study, the author challenges such behavioral contempt for political theory by presenting his vindications of the importance and value of political theory. Furthermore, he attempts to locate political theory in a proper and legitimate place in the study of …