Mar. 26 Special Interests in Organizational Perspective

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Mar. 26 Special Interests in Organizational
Perspective

• Access as an analytical concept Are managers
  gatekeepers of access?
• Define/differentiate among these terms (think in
  terms of Venn diagrams)
• Clients
• Interest groups
• Trade groups
• PIGs (public interest groups
• Professional groups
• Public employee groups
• Other
• Which is(are) more active? Under what
  conditions? Is active the same as successful?
• Regulation, regulatory neglect, capture
• Pertinence of tasks of norms (sociological view)
• Pertinence of benefits/costs (economic view)
• Client agency
• Entrepreneurial agency
• Interest group agency
• Majoritarian agency
• How the ideas of embeddedness and enactment work
  here

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Mar. 26 Special Interests in Organizational
Perspective

• How is the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946
  relevant to the issue of client access?
• What insights are gained by understanding special
  interest though organization theory (see last
  slide)
• How/why are the issues of decline of iron
  triangles and restraints on agency capture
  related?
• (Related to Wilson Ch. 5) Assume you are the top
  administrator of an agency having been captured
  by a business trade groupwhat does that imply?
  How would you try to disarm that claim or justify
  your agencys efforts?
• For future reference
• Are client- and agency-behaviors (discussed in
  GB ch. 4) the same as Fountains idea of
  networks in The Virtual State (see pp.
  198-206)?
• Any similarities between the TVA (in Wilson) and
  U.S. Customs? (in Fountain Chs. 7 and 8)
• Do computer information networks (in Fountains
  Virtual State) expand or limit access to agency
  decisions?